[StephLee]

My very first kick-off was what really got me hooked; I remember getting sucked in by the excitement in the room, and thinking that I couldn't wait to be that excited about something.

One of the best moments of my career in FIRST so far, however (and the moment that showed me our team is doing its job), came this year at Chesapeake. My 7-year-old brother had done a school project on Mars a month or so earlier, and I asked Dave if I could introduce him and snap a photo. When I told my brother he was going to meet "the guy in charge of the Mars rovers" as he'd called him, the look on his face was priceless. It was the same look he'd gotten a year earlier, when he'd met a professional basketball player.

That my little brother was as awed by a rocket scientist as by a professional athlete was, to me, the most motivating moment in my experience so far.