[melissa]

I joined FIRST because I was in a lego league team in 8th grade...and one of the mentors (who is also a mentor for the highschool robots team) kept bugging me to come see what FIRST was all about. I'm glad I listened to him. But it's interesting because in 8th grade I didn't want to do Lego League, but two of my friends were doing it and told me it would look good on a highschool application so do it...and I did. I ended up staying with it longer than either of them, and now I can't get enough...go figure haha.