[Arefin Bari]

Its really hard to decide whos the one who helped through your FIRST experience.. when you have all these great mentors, teachers and FIRSTers around you... working with you 24/7, helping you out anyway possible... some names... Felix alvarez from my team (our mechanical engineer who has been such a great friend and a great mentor), Mr. Stan Shelton ... (our teacher who has been working with the team and organizing everything)... Andy Baker (an Engineer whom everyone admires... everytime when i had a technical question.. i had a solution from him) Gary Dillard, erik, matt, tiffany, mary (pit crews of SPAM) has always helped me, they gave me two globe motors which made our robot arm work at nationals... Ron and Jim from 107 (looks like they always bring their machine shop for our team)... Brandon Martus and DJ (any problems with chiefdelphi for me gets solved in min)... my fellow FIRSTers... Tytus, Mike walker, Andrew Rudolph, George (1083), Dan (studmandan), Ryan, Abe, Peter, Mandie (179)... from my team... jimbo (specialagentjim), Michele (co manager with me for the mechanical team), Matt Kaplan (matt_kaplan108)... they are always there when i need them...

then Finally My family... they have always supported me with my decisions, when i first asked my dad about joining robotics, his response was "i trust you... do what you think is right... just follow your heart"... mommy always tells me that concentrate on what i am doing... and my younger brother is following me to be a FIRSTer...

just like i said to one of the newscast people at UCF... "when i first joined back in my freshman year... i thought this is just one of my side activity, hobby or spare time activity... but after time has passed by throughout my sophomore year, junior year ... FIRST has become my life... and i admire all of my fellow FIRSTers..."