[FourPenguins]

This reminds me of a career project I had to do for school. We had to find someone in our desired field to interview about his or her career. For most kids, finding a robotic engineer to interview is a difficult task, but not for a FIRSTer.
My friend Mike talked to one of our team mentors, and I got in touch with Matt DiCicco, one of MORT's founding members, who's currently working at NASA's JPL and mentoring team IForgettheNumber.
One of the things he told me was how important it is to build a network of individuals in the industry to help you out when you need a contact about employment or other help later in life. In FIRST, there's a massive network of people like these two who you can tap as resources in the industry. There aren't many aspiring engineers who can email someone on NASA's rover project if they have some questions. It's one of the unique priviledges of FIRST.