My best FIRST experience has to be qualifying for Nationals in 2002. We started the year with a shoestring budget, no place to work, and not qualified for Nats. Through incredible teamwork and dedication, we managed to pull everything together, win the Buckeye Regional, and qualify to attend Nationals. Hands down, that was my best FIRST experience ever.
If you want to know more, check out my FIRST Historians story, "A Special Championship", about the subject:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=22407