This past Saturday, I went for my first time to the 2008 New York State Fair in Syracuse. I had a great time working at the FIRST booth as a representative of team 694(Stuyvesant H.S.) and an even greater time just enjoying the fair. As you can see in one of the pictures in the Word document attachment, I was able to touch baby chicks in the 4H building, which also housed the FIRST booth. I was involved mainly with the Vex robots because prior to the fair I had built 4 of them, but there were was an FLL Station and FRC station too. I enjoyed teaching the kids how to control the robot and then in the off times I got to do fun things like feeding giraffes, llamas, and goats as well as seeing a bear demonstration in which the bear shot a basketball into a hoop. All in all, it was a superb experience and with teams 250, 340, 145,191,2265,145, and 578 we even had fun as we worked. I need to thank Regional Director Ana Martinez for organizing this event and all the other people who helped to make this event possible. What we need for next year though is more teams and more volunteers so that we can create an even bigger impression on the kids visiting our booth and just so that more people like me can experience going to a State Fair. Here’s a link to the NY State Fair site:
www.nysfair.org