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Re: Why did you join FIRST?

2001 my Dad was mentoring 270 Deer Park's robotics team, my Uncle was there and asked my Dad to help him a few hours a week with the project, My Dad took my family to the SBPLI regional on saturday i was 13 and I loved it, Freshman year of high school I found out my school was starting a team, I showed up at the meeting after kick off, next day asked my Dad to come help us, and we have been with 871 since then
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Re: Why did you join FIRST?

I blame my daughter for it. At the start of her freshman year in HS she had to pick an extracurricular activity and saw that there was a robotics club. She'd had a preview of this club when her middle school tech class went to the Philly regional the year before, so she signed up for it. The "club" was Team 103.

I tried to stay out of it and let her grow without my meddling. Really, I did! I managed to give her her space and just helped out a little on Saturdays during build season. Then I went to my first regional (J&J, at the Rutgers College Ave gym) and decided that it was way more fun than one daughter should be allowed to have by herself.
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When i was in about 6th grade my grandparents volunteered me to be a ball boy at the 2002 championships at EPCOT. I was swept up in the excitement and immediately went around the teams trying to find one from my future high school. I soon found out that Winter Park (the school I was zoned for) didn't have a team. So in 2005 when i became a freshman I joined 1083, another local high schools team. The year flew by and I had a blast, meeting tons of great people and creating friendships I still have today. Sadly that was 1083's last year so I, along with a very dedicated group of mentors and students, decided it was time to start a new central Florida team, and 1902 was born.

Another funny story is how one of my friends joined the team. It was 1902's second meeting ever, we didn't even have a name yet, and we brought a tray of Chick-fil-a to the meeting so we could eat and ponder over the game hint. My friend heard about the food and stopped in to mooch our chicken. However after she saw what the team did she decided to come back the next meeting and all the meetings after that.
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During my freshman year of HS, I had Mr. Steve Wherry for geometry. He was one of the teacher sponsors for team 234. I wasn't on the team, but he spent so much time during second semester (Spring 2001) talking about FIRST, their robot, and the competitions that I was intrigued. He even went so far as to diagram the fabled "710 Match" during one of our classes then show us the video from the webcast. That spring break, my family went on a cruise then hung out in Orlando for a few days. The Saturday before we drove home, my dad took me to see my teacher and the robotics team he had heard some things about at work. I was blown away. As soon as I got home, I convinced my three best friends to apply for the team with me for the next season.

Eight years later, I have a BSME from Purdue with significant help from a Purdue/Delphi/FIRST scholarship, and a full-time position as a system engineer at Rolls-Royce (a sponsor of team 234 and 8 other central Indiana teams), and am back mentoring team 234. The circle of FIRST-life continues. All thanks to an enthusiatic geometry teacher and a father willing to take a chance and do something different with his son.
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Re: Why did you join FIRST?

11 years ago, i was 7, my dad started to mentor 270 and brought me to the shops. I've been addicted ever since.
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Re: Why did you join FIRST?

Lets start with my story
So sophomore year, two weeks before kickoff I realized i wasn't going to have much to do (cross-country ended and still had 4 more months until track) so I figured i would join this robotics team that the Tech Drawing teacher asked me to. Also two of my cousins were on team 25 (if i had known that i was getting into that HUGE competition they always talked about I might have been scared out of it...hurray for ignorance!!!). So two weeks after I joined...electrical sub-team leader (never touched a tool before) . A few months later Junior Team Leader. The next year i was team leader. In about 6 long months I will be at Ohio State University mentoring one of the teams that OSU helps. (i hope)
Some other strange ones from our team:
"I think I am in the wrong room" -Programming lead this year (his rookie year)
"I need to do something before practice" - helped quite a bit with build this year
"I heard you guys melt electronics, I could probably help." - someone who ended up joining
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Re: Why did you join FIRST?

My dad saw a flier while touring the school before we had even moved here. I went to a meeting a few weeks after we moved in. It was the middle of my sophomore year, and my parents thought it was the best way to make friends quickly in a new school.

They were right.
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Re: Why did you join FIRST?

I reallly like reading (and sharing!) these stories!

Even if you think your story has been told a million times, share it!

(Also, if any teams are having recruiting issues, I just realized that this thread might be benificial for them (for ideas))
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I wanted to join FIRST before FIRST even existed. I saw a program on TV about Woodie Flowers and the 2.007 Engineering class at MIT, and felt a little cheated that I'd never have the chance to participate.

Fast forward about twenty years, with my son entering high school and joining the TechnoKats -- no WAY was I going to let him miss out on it! I attended the 2003 Ford Sweet Repeat off-season competition, watched the 2004 FRC Kickoff in Kokomo, and generally hung around the shop for the first couple of weeks of build. The team's software mentor was called out of the country on business at an inconvenient time, and I was asked to step in and help out.

Knowing nothing about the control system, I said yes anyway. A visit to Wildstang gave me a solid foundation to learn how to program the "new" IFI system, and my place with the team was made official. I'm still "helping out" two years after my son graduated.
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Re: Why did you join FIRST?

I joined FIRST because my elementary school wanted to start a team and I like math and science, so I decided to see what it was all about. 4 years later, I'm still involved and on an FTC team in my Jr. High we were the first FTC team in our county!
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Re: Why did you join FIRST?

I'm not sure if I've told this story yet, but last year in myy freshman year one of my mentors Mr. J was my biology teacher and one day at the end of class he showed us this really amazing video about robotics. I saw it and was like OMG I HAVE TO JOIN!!!! but last year i got too distracted with other things and then this year I was determined to join and I started of with VEX and continued onto FRC and now i'm addicted
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hmm.. lets see...
i joined because a few of my really close friends where in robotics and they wanted me to join. I mainly joined in the beginning to hang with them and all but my motives have changed. now im here to learn .. and have fun.. XD
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i joined because a few of my really close friends where in robotics and they wanted me to join. I mainly joined in the beginning to hang with them and all but my motives have changed. now im here to learn .. and have fun.. XD
You, Cheif Delphi and FIRST, can thank/blame me for that one.

My story tho... hmm, lets see.

I was in Jr. High School and there was an announcement over the intercom about a robotics club. I inquired, and was indoctrinated into Lego League. After that, it was a natural jump to the FRC team at the highschool where I've been ever since. I'm coming back to my team to mentor since I'm going to the local college, Cal Poly San Luis. FIRST has it's hooks in me, and I doubt I'll ever be able, or want to, get them out.
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Re: Why did you join FIRST?

I joined my school's robotics team this year only intending to stay on during the pre-season to work on the safety animation, because I thought I wanted to be an animator and design games. Then build season and Systems Integration happened, and now I intend to stay on the team for the rest of high school, become a FIRST mentor during and after college, and become a systems engineer when I grow up.

FIRST has significantly and unexpectedly changed my life. =)
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