Managing Grades and Responsibilities While On A FIRST Team

[Nica F.]

Honestly, this is probably one of the things I look back at and go, I can't believe I was able to do all of this.

I love being involved in school, so I am apart of many various clubs at school and am an active volunteer at local libraries. I am on the robotics board (our robotics gov.), game club, junior senator, prom committee, student council, and president of the school's fashion club.
When it comes to managing grades and responsiblities, I prioritize everything to which is most important to me. For me it goes school, then robotics, then everything else.

When you're in a year as important as your Junior year in highschool, where you have SATs and every grade counts 3x more than the rest, you have to realize that you MUST save time to do your work. (Then again, no matter what grade you're in, you still have to save some hw time.)

On our team, a message that we try to put across is that you should serve as role models in our school. We do everything as a team to make sure that everyone still keeps their grades up. We give tutoring sessions to our members when needed.