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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
Well see theres an interesting story behind why I joined..
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Gee, I would have loved to have heard that Tom
Honestly though, these stories have been a blast to read!
My reason was three-fold. I went to a rather "isolated" Catholic grade school through 8th grade and we rarely heard about anything that went on at the local public high school even though they were just down the street. In about 5th grade, some members from the robotics team came down to visit us and I recognized one of the gals on the team as being a former St. Jerome student. I was super excited and vowed that I would try to join robotics when I got to high school.
Being the last of 5 kids didn't help my cause when I went to high school, everyone expected me to go through the same sports and classes and clubs as the rest of my siblings had done. Well, I did do the same sports, and I took the same classes (at a much younger age), but I certainly didn't want to join DECA or JSA or be a part of the local bands and play groups. Naturally, robotics just seemed to be a load of fun!
Finally, though he may not know it, Ricky Q. was the final factor in deciding to join team 269. My freshman year, I had honors Chemistry with Ricky and a few other robotics team members. As I soon found out, the teacher was also one of the mentors. Truth be told, I was rather jealous of the guys for going down to Texas and different regionals all of the time
So, the next year, when I had Physics and was (literally) surrounded in my seat by 6 guys from the team, I had no choice but to come to the first meeting and see what it really was all about!
I'm so glad that I haven't looked back since
