How has robotics affected you?

[O'Sancheski]

robotics has affected my life in a big way... learning new things is probably the biggest thing... i have learned so much about drive trains, pneumatics, gear ratios, and meeing new friends... and also another big thing is that i met my girlfriend on the team...

[tomy]

i used to be the nerd of my grade with the good grades and the person who got no sleep. now with FRC i got people who understand me and 4 hours of sleep works for all of us

[Ian Curtis]

Strangely, FLL had a significantly larger impact on my life than FRC did.

The Maine School of Science and Math (Maine's Magnet School) runs a summer camp for middle school kids and they gave a summer camp scholarship to the team that won the Director's award (which combines your scores from all other areas). We won the award, but I had no interest in going to camp (for reasons I know can't remember). My sister went though, and loved it, and through a long silly story, I ended up in Limestone Maine for the last 3 years of high school. I loved it, and I got far more out of it than I ever would've at my original high school.

Conveniently, we also got a 2 week "January Term" that we could spend doing internships that fell on the first two weeks of build, and February break always coincided with the mad dash prior to ship date.