It’s a long story. Last year I was a member of G-Force, Team #535 which is now in Markle, IN. Then I and a few of my other friends resigned as a member of that team, for reasons which I will not explain. As far as I know, the G-force team has diminished. Later to become a member of a rookie team, Team THRUST, and then to find out this year, that our rookie registration was denied, after they said it was accepted. They even gave as a team number, which is 1501. I do not know why exactly, from what I heard, so there for this isn't a fact, the denied our registration because of two reasons, one we didn't have a school as a sponsor, and two, because we had members on the team that were previous members of another team. Also, form what I hear, again, not sure if this is true, but since most of our students on the team were previous members of 535, FIRST told us we would have to use that number. Which because of certain circumstances that I do not want to discuss, that is impossible.
So this year I and the rest of my robotics buddies are team-less. In my opinion I think FIRST doesn't understand that this is the only way the students here in Huntington, IN can compete. It makes me sad to think that we will miss out on all the knowledge that we could have gained this year, not to even mention the amount of fun.
I remember when I started Lego league in 2001, it was so fun. After a year of that, I made FIRST my life. And it has been my life every since then. For FIRST to take that away in my opinion isn’t fair to me, or the other students. I want to learn, I want to have fun, and FIRST is the way I want to do that.
I love science and technology, I love FIRST, that's my life.