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Re: why why why...?

Posted by Patrick Dingle at 1/2/2001 9:55 PM EST


Other on team #639, Red B^2, from Ithaca High School and Cornell University.


In Reply to: why why why...?
Posted by Ken Leung on 12/30/2000 10:05 PM EST:



: Why did everyone get involved in this competition? Was it because of friends, teachers, demonstrations, magazines, internet, dreams, goals...etc?

As a Junior in my tiny little high school (T190 Mass. Academy of Math & Sci, less than 80 total students), our class was shown one of the complete ESPN broadcasts of the nationals at Epcot. Anyways, this video was my first exposure to FIRST and captured my interest, along with most of the rest of our school.
As a junior, I was signed up on the team, but I really wasn't interested enough to be actively involved. Then I went to the '99 Philadelphia Regional. From that point on, I was hooked. The following weekend, I went to the New England competition, and saw my team get 2nd place! I was simply amazed by all the excitement, intensity, strategy, and engineering enguity at these competitions. Although I hadn't signed up to go to nationals, I immediately became an active member of the team. During my senior year, I worked many many hours on the team and went to all our competitions as a pit crew member.

After my senior year, I had an dilemma. I found a college with everything I was looking for -- but no FIRST team. Well, my firstaholicness and Dean's homework assignment inspired me to do everything I could to start a FIRST team at my college. With the help of Buzz U., other previous FIRST members, some faculty and administrators, the local high school, my former team, and some luck, I am still actively involved with FIRST, and hopefully for at least three more seasons.

Although I have only been involved with FIRST for two years, FIRST undoubtedly influenced me greatly. I was already pretty sure I wanted to be an engineer, but I now have absolutely no doubt that engineering is what I want to do. Helping to start a team is also great, because many more students will be able to have the same opportunity that I had.


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