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FRC #1197 (Torbots)
Team Role: Engineer
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Rookie Year: 2003
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Re: Why did you join FIRST?

I first saw a FIRST robot back in the dark ages... My school, along with about 3 others, had a team in 1997's Torroid Terror that did a demo at my school. I didn't pay much attention at the demo... I probably should have.

Then my dad started helping out the (now single-school) team as an engineer in 1998, the last year before alliances. Naturally, I hung out with the team when I could. I remember one of my friends and I cleaning the floor of nuts and washers and passing them to the sorters. That's kind of how it went from then to 2000. Then the team changed locations, so I couldn't hang out at the shop any more.

2001 and 2002, I went to competitions, as I'd been doing since SVR started (anyone else remember the blimp hangar we were in the first year?). I'd gone to the 1999 and 2000 SVR events, and the 2000 Orlando competition (also known as: Nationals).

For the 2003 season, the team leadership decided to allow 8th grade students on the team under certain conditions, which I met. (Later, the age went back up.) I, of course, jumped at the chance and got to work, as I was in 8th grade that year. Back to hanging out at the shop... but this time, I was actually working.
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2008: FRC1135 Shmoebotics
2012: FRC4046 Schroedinger's Dragons

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