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Re: My story - it's really rather long - Got that right!
Posted by Robby at 1/1/2001 10:14 AM EST
Other on team #108, The SigmaC@Ts, from AIFL and Motorola. In Reply to: My story, and be warned, it's really rather long Posted by Lora Knepper on 1/1/2001 8:23 AM EST: Wow. That was a heck of a story. Hmm... makes me feel kinda silly for the way I told mine...> Lora is so right. I have never had another experience like FIRST either. I keep going back for everything, the people, the competition, and yes, the hairs on my back and tears in my eyes when Dean and Woody approach the mic and unveil the new field. This year I'll probably be starting at it from that little gate they have to keep unknowns out, but I'll still be exited, and you know why? Because of everything that Lora has mentioned, and everything that FIRST is and everything everyone says FIRST is. It is what you want it to be. It is never never land for all of us geeks who got picked on most of our lives, who enjoyed ::nods to Lora and Justin:: dissassembling mommy's favorite clock just to see how it works. We like to read Fantasy novels and admittedly watch the Sci-Fi and Comedy channels (before they were 'COOL'). We go because we finally are the norm. But you know what else I think really keeps us coming? The fact that we know that our engineers and mentors were like us at one time: Geeks. And you know what? We are going to be where they are, becasue we are making the connetions now, something that all those kids who picked on us would never think to do. FIRST is gaining momentum and teams at incredible rates every year, and soon, we will be showing those kids how to do things that they labeled us as uncool for at one point. As they say, everybody wants to rule the world. And yknow who's gonna do it? FIRSTers. Wait til we have a president in the white house who started surfin the net since 92, and joined FIRST in 94, who wears his FIRST-SME badge to every major meeting. Or famous actors who design thier own webpages and promote FIRST across the nation. Video game designers adding 'Special thanks to Dean and Woody - Thanks for FIRST guys!' in the end credits. People who spinoff companies and websites from FIRST. Look at sharingFIRST and Innovation FIRST. FIRST will reach the point of world-wide known sports. The only difference? No strikes, No expesive tickets, just something everyone can have a hand in. That is the day when FIRST becomes the norm. When everyone is part of some FIRST team. When they know how much work went into these robots and put in thier share on thier team. When everyone looking in, can look out and say: 'Man I whish I had done this earlier. Now I know why they were cheering so hard at robots that merely lifted a ball into a goal.' And we cheer like mad because of all the work we put into our robots. We know that we have lost sleep, lost contact with people outside of our team, and LITERALLY put sweat, blood, tears, and time over six weeks and at the competitions. That is why we cheer so hard. And that is why I think it is tough for anyone just walking by to jump on the bandwagon. But they will, with time. -Robby, aka Osh Kosh the unicycle Kid 'heh, finally got serious on y'all!' |
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