What is your favorite part of the FIRST experience?

[TheBoulderite]

My favorite part of the experience is the strategy behind the game. It's always fun to analyze the game and think of how you're going to attack the challenge. I also enjoy going around the pits, talking to teams, and seeing their robots. Collecting buttons and other memos is cool, too. (I know that 525 made an elimination alliance button for every event they went to this year, including our alliance on Carson. They just asked for the team colors of all the teams on the alliance, and ten minutes later we all had buttons. I still have no idea how they made them so fast. )

Interacting with other teams is probably my favorite part, though. This year, for the first time in team history, we invited all of the teams from Colorado that had qualified for champs to our HQ for a practice session. (Only six teams qualified, meaning we all could fit.) It was a lot of fun for all the teams that came, and I really hope we do it again next year. At champs, I got to see some awesome robots in person and talk to some really nice people on some really good teams. People (and robots) are awesome!