The Meaning of FIRST

[faust1706]

FIRST for me is getting to opportunity to learn from the smartest people I know, the mentors. They made it a point this year to be hands off on design, build, and programming. Our teacher sponsor and a team member's mom assembled our bumpers this year. The students got all the material and cut the wood, they assembled it. Anyways, a mentor I worked very close with is an engineer at Boeing. He showed me the ropes of programming last year, and told me to have at it. This year was a little more structured, he knew where the program needed to go, told me, and I had to figure out how to get it there. I feel this was a great system for learning, because if I ever had an questions concerning my programming logic, we would take to the whiteboard, where anyone was welcome to try and point out flaws with us. He's done more for me that taught me how to program a Kinect. He's INSPIRED me to learn programming on my own. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't be asking why and how, I'd be playing LoL. Now, I do both XD