My mom told me that she was going to take me to see a Frank Lloyd Wright house, in Chicago. I fell asleep in the car, and when i woke up, we were at the UIC pavillion. My mom told me that we were just stopping by so that my brother could see some of the robotics competition that was going on. Needless to say, I was dragged into the competition to watch a few matches, after i walked around the pits I had decided that I wanted to be involved in FIRST. That year I helped out with my brother's FLL team quite a bit with their presentations and displays and little stuff like that. Later that summer I was recruited to help out with a robotics summer camp, because I was good with the little kids (most of the guys on the team weren't soo great). After meeting all the kids on the team at the camp and finding out that i didn't need any prior experience to join the team, by the end of the week, I was hooked on robotics. Now I don't even know what I would do without it
It was even cooler to compete at the midwest competition, a year after when i saw it for the first time.
(also i should probably throw in there, my first year on the team i was the only one from St. Charles, and the only one from my school, batavia was the closest team around. it was really fun, so anyone who has issues with joining a team because they don't know anyone, you meet a gagillion new people who are probably way cooler than friends that you had before)
