Strangely, FLL had a significantly larger impact on my life than FRC did.
The Maine School of Science and Math (Maine's Magnet School) runs a summer camp for middle school kids and they gave a summer camp scholarship to the team that won the Director's award (which combines your scores from all other areas). We won the award, but I had no interest in going to camp (for reasons I know can't remember). My sister went though, and loved it, and through a long silly story, I ended up in Limestone Maine for the last 3 years of high school. I loved it, and I got far more out of it than I ever would've at my original high school.
Conveniently, we also got a 2 week "January Term" that we could spend doing internships that fell on the first two weeks of build, and February break always coincided with the mad dash prior to ship date.
