[Rion Atkinson]

In 2008 I started my first year at Francis Tuttle's Pre-Engineering Academy in Oklahoma. It was there first year trying a mentoring program in which they assign a returning student to a new student to show them around and give them any help they require throughout the year. My mentor turned out (By complete randomness) to be a fellow home-schooler. A week or so later he walked up to me and told me about a robotics team he was on. (It was a BEST team) I decided to join after a few meetings.

We won 1st place in the Robot Competition and 1st place in the BEST Award at OKC BEST. We then won 2nd place in FT Smith with our robot. While at Ft. Smith I was told about a team that some of the students from BEST do. It was called FIRST. I said sure I'll give it a try. Turned out to be the most fun I had ever had.

Now during the time between our state and regional competition we wanted to try and put something fun in the pit. Because of this I was playing with a bunch of wiring. In doing so I caught the team captain's eye(Also the team captain on the FIRST team)

2009: Electrical Team Captain
2010: Team Captain and CAD guy
2011: No idea yet.... I'll be starting a new team though.