competitions

[Ian McShane]

Robotics competitions are like college parties, they make people super crazzzzzy and make them lose their minds.

[GCentola]

and voices too! lol

Yet somehow, through all the fun, you begin to realize that you arent just at some really fin competition, but also a celebration of STEM. What other high school competitions last for 2-3 days, where hundreds of students get together to celebrate the fact they spent the same 6 weeks accomplishing an amazing feat of engineering?

[Ian McShane]

exactly. realizing that the 6 weeks of night and day work has payed off and that you can mostly (as a programmer) relax...until something goes wrong, lol

[Ian McShane]

and then you realize, why on earth cant we just do this for a living and do it 5 times a year and get paid to do it.

[Ian McShane]

and then you go on "the world is not fair" train and im not gunna go there lol

[GCentola]

I don't think there are many feelings better than the first match. When, after 6 weeks of hard work (regardless of your area of the robot), you see the final product on the field. And when it works, you can sit back, relax, and say "I made that". Especially as a member of the 2011 Drive Team, to take the robot out onto the field and compete in a match was a great feeling!