I want to go a little different route with mine.

My best experience is being involved with FIRST as a whole. Before my team's rookie season in 2007, I was shy, nervous in front of people - big crowds and small - and just had trouble overall speaking and communicating. In the teams first year, I helped with presentations to local engineering companies, even though I was deathly afraid of this, especially since I was in front of a lot of older professionals.

Long story short, I moved my way up to team captain in 2008 and 2009 for my junior and senior years, I was on the presentation team for Chairman's, and would regularly do any public presentations for the team. Being a part of FIRST allowed me to become extremely comfortable with any sort of public speaking. I regularly have to do presentations now that I'm in my final semester, and I don't have a problem being in front of 100 of my classmates or industry professionals.

FIRST is such a great organization, and that's why I've volunteered for 5 straight years now, and hope to do many more. I know what the kids learn from being on the team, and that makes me want to help out even more.