What FIRST Is About

[rachelholladay]

I worked as a volunteer on Archimedes at the championship. Matches hadn't started yet so we were all just standing around. Team 118, Robonauts, came early to the field. Not only did they give every single volunteer one of their buttons but their student drivers spent about 10 minutes talking to some of us that were a bit bored. The answered all kinds of questions and were immensely friendly.

While volunteering I was also blown away by the Pink team's (233) spirit. They always had people dancing, even during the lunch break. No one in their section was sitting and they probably cheered for just about every team. When the volunteers wanted to start the chant of "archimedes", we immediately went to the Pink team, who got the whole field and crowd cheering. Later, I saw they had bubbles but didn't have the courage to go ask for some. My sister, who was in the stands, told them that there was a small volunteer on the field who wanted bubbles. During one of their elimination matches, their head mentor/coach slipped me some bubbles. I still have them.