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Re: How did you findout about/became involved with in FIRST?
Well let's see. Back in July of 2002 my son Michael was invited to a picnic by friends he met who were friends with my younger son Chris. He called it a picnic for the robotics team. Come September he wanted to check out the meeting, so my wife took him. The next week she "Got a headache" & asked me to take him. When I met "Engineer Dave" I was hooked. When the new game was revealed in Jan '03 Mike volunteered me to make a miniature ramp because he knew I liked to build things. He also volunteered me to help with the Scrimmage. Boy, I didn't know what I was getting into. Mike graduated in 03, got a FIRST Scholarship to UMASS & now Works at Pratt & Whitney as a Mechanical Engineer. Younger son Chris came on board from 2003-2008. Chris graduated in 07 & is now a navy corpsman in Hawaii with the marines. I have been doing the scrimmage ever since.
Of course it doesn't end there. One of the team mentors & a direct liaison to FIRST pushed me into volunteering at the CT Regional. That was in 2010. I'm still volunteering & was very happy to be Field Supervisor for the Groton & Southington District events in CT.
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Mentor & Volunteer
Field setup, Field Supervisor & disassemble Suffield Shakedown 2003- present (2015)
Connecticut Regional Field setup, disassemble & FTAA 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 (Field reset & Assistant Field Supervisor), Field Reset Pine Tree Regional 2013, Field Supervisor, setup & take-down at Groton & Southington Districts 2014, Field Reset Hartford District 2014. Field Reset Boston District Championship 2014. FLL Judge Fall 2014
Field Supervisor/Set-up & Take-down Waterbury & Springfield , Field Reset/Set-up & take-down Hartford N/E District 2015. Field Reset NE Champs 2015. FLL Judge Fall 2015.
Suffield Shakedown 2016, Field Super 2016 Stronghold Waterbury.
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