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Re: When did FIRST click to you?
For me it was a combination of occurrences. The first step for it "clicking" was when I went to Worlds for the first time in 2015. As I walked around, met new people, and saw teams and their amazing robots I had always aspired to be as good as, I just felt marveled at the majesty of the program. That year I went to conferences and watched the best of the best, and when I came home it all started to come to me, how my team could change things and what I could do to help the team fulfill the vision we had.
The second real actualization of the "clicking" of sorts is not when I was elected captain in the spring of 2015, not when I sat down with peers and mentors to plan training, but the first time I stood in front of a group of parents, freshmen, veterans, and mentors and led my first whole team meeting. That is when for me, I realized the impact and magnitude that the FIRST program can have on a school, a group of teenagers, and on me as an individual.
Maybe I will have another epiphany later on in life about FIRST...
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Bailey Joseph
FRC Team 1735 The Green Reapers College Mentor
FRC Team 166 Chop Shop Co Captain // Alumni
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