I got invovled with FIRST because I was forced to join! Kate(T190) and my brother Nick forced me to join as a freshman, I thought it was such a geeky thing to do but by the end of the year I was in love with the program. FIRST went from being a geeky thing that I couldn't believe I was being forced to join to being one of the most important things in my life, amazing isn't it
. Now when I talk to my jock friends and they say things about how they would never join a robotics team, I talk to them about ho much more exciting this can be then a soccer match or a football game and get them excited about the program, it's great
. I coem back year after year in order to learn, to have fun, to achieve that feelign of awe you get when you step back from a hunk a metal you've put blood, sweat and tears into for the past 6 weeks and see an amazing robotic machine before you. That is what makes me come back year after year, its such a great thing!