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Re: Why did you join FIRST?
My Dad use to take me to the Finger Lakes Regional every year, and although I didn't get it that much then as soon as I was a freshman I grabbed five of my friends and told them the have to come to this meeting, four of them are now ending their second year in the program.
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I believe it was in 2004(FIRST Frenzy). My dad came home and was talking about it after hearing about FIRST(and the Palmetto Regional) on the radio. He then pulled the site up and watched the promo video. I fell in love with that video and showed it to everyone I knew.
When we went to the Palmetto regional a few weeks later, we fell in love with it and then took a trip to Championships. The following year my dad decided to start a FLL team(I was in 6th grade) with three of my friends. That first year we got the name "Cyber Storm" and moved with two years of FLL, a year with FVC(now FTC) and last year the was the first time being in FRC. With being the first FIRST team in our town, and my dad pushing the whole thing. What has now grown into two FLL teams and pretty well known FRC team in our community, with my dad pushing the whole thing forward; volunteering at anytime and mentoring FLL teams, I can't imagine life with out FIRST. ps. To this date FIRST Frenzy still has a special place in my heart, for being the first game I ever saw. |
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My first exposure to the organization was when I was 7 or so, it was the game with the purple playground balls that fell from over the driver stations. My mom called me into the room where she had the TV on the channel that was showing a regional, "It's robots!" I went in, saw the kids driving them and said, "neh, they're not fighting." (Yes, I'm guilty of it)
In 5th grade, I got picked up from school to go over to my brother's middle school where they had an FLL team (I had no idea what was going on in there), but I hung out with them, helped build their field, and ended up going to a competition with them (they didn't do too hot). I went to a different middle school, one without a team, but there was a robotics class, so I was set. In 8th grade, I was interested in 3D animation and such, so My mom took me over to Norview, where my brother was in their FRC team. I didn't watch him, though, I hung out with Paul Jones (he goes to JMU now) but I gravitated to the shop where they were building stuff (I grew up on Legos). Not only that, but the robotics class they had there used VEX, and at some point I picked up the controller for one and was instantly deemed a driver (too bad I wasn't a high school student) because I was carefully driving the bot through table legs, over shoes, between legs, etc. Over the course of it all, I was in the 'gifted' program (was mysteriously dropped from the list), dabbled in TSA (wasn't thrilled with the leadership at the school), and offered a spot at the technical center. You won't hear me complain the one I stuck with. My mom brought up the interesting point that I've done more leading than the LCSE (Leadership group at Norview) and we both thought that's pretty funny. |
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I took part in Team 2502's rookie year. The senior who had started the team left for MIT so basically, a bunch of freshmen and juniors were left with the job of making the team's second year as successful as possible. I saw the chance and grasped the opportunity to lead the team and program our robot. I'm one of the team leaders with 2 other sophomores and a senior. Our regional is in 4 days! I am so excited to see the fruits of the work of the second year team.
I must say, the senior leaving and me trying to fill his gap taught me a lot and gave me a ton of challenges, but also glued me to the team ![]() |
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I joined FIRST when one day I got a call from the parent who coordinated FLL. Apparently an old tech teacher from my elementary school was good friends with her and suggested that I might be a good addition to the team. The following year I was able to lead a FLL team that was able to go to Atlanta after winning our regional.
Thanks to this parent, and the success of the FLL teams, the administration of the team took more notice and thanks to them and Hawaii embracing robotics for the new FRC regional, a FRC team was created. I was lucky enough to move from FLL to FRC during that year, showing me the diversity of programs FIRST offers and how amazing they all are. |
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May 1999-in my high school library, looking at a Cheesy Poof Rookie robot with Jason Morella and 2 students from Broadway HS.
Some other teacher told me to come check out this thing called FIRST Robotics. ![]() |
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Our future-Mentor came to our school (pretty late, actually, in the end of December) and introduced the FRC to my class, explaining that the project involves mechanics, physics and programming, which of course, I was interested in.
I was about to start a programming project with another friend, related to image processing, but we weren't give too much help, so I thought that programming a robot and not a program on a computer would be much more fun and challenge. When I saw my other team mates joining, I thought to myself that I was better than them in programming (guilty , but I really was) so I decided to volunteer for being the programming team leader.I wanted to join the program because I saw this as an oppurtunity to experince first-hand, in high school, on how to work in a high-tech buissness. There was no other place for me to expereince this, and I knew that this project would deffiantly give me something for the future. That's why the following year I was the CEO of the team. ![]() |
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A robotics team was starting my junior year in high school. I was kinda interested but i had a large class load. Grant (who was a senior) attended a meeting, and saw some match video of team 1718, kept trying to convince me to join. Finally one day he handed me a application and said show up today after school in the physics room. I did.
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My wife (ex-wife actually but were still on speaking terms so I still call her mine) got me involved because I had the opportunity to get my hands on 3D Studio Max. So I eagerly jumped at the chance.
Seven years later and i still can't figure out how to use it. |
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I was misinformed.
![]() I guess my story is a little boring compared to others but the day of the pre-kickoff meeting, my friend told me it was like battle bots and I figured I would see what it was. I was a freshman and it was the rookie year of the team. We had 5 dedicated members at the end of that year, 4 went to the regional. 3 years later, we've grown significantly and there isn't an end in sight (for both me and the team ).-Vivek |
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In grade 7 I went to see my brother (grade 9 at the time) and the Coyobot compete in "Aim High" (in my opinion the best game) I saw it again in grade 8 and when grade 9 came around I went to see him in the lab one day in early January and I was "recruited."
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I got involved in FIRST because it was something different. I have never really been interested in anything mechanical but I thought i should try something new. I joined thinking I would just do it for a year because I thought I would totally dislike it. After going through the process I realized that I enjoyed it very much, and that I wanted to continue doing it. I met TONS of new people my first year and I experienced so many things which I wouldn't have experienced if it wasn't for joining my schools robotics team. I am now into my second year on the team and I'm enjoying every second of my experience!
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OK so the way I got involved in FIRST was because of my mentor Mr. Lajvardi from Team 842 Falcon Robotics. My Freshmen year close to the end of the school year as I was looking through the scrapbook of the Falcon robotics Ledge suggested that I should join the team next year me and my friend Nilo. By my Sophomore year I became historian, the next year secretary, historian, electrical, and semi-builder. By my Senior year I became the driver and a builder.
I never knew about FIRST til my Sophomore year. I am proud to be part of FIRST. ![]() |
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My 8th grade year was terrible. Bullies and what not kept on coming at me. For that reason, I decided I wanted to open enroll somewhere. A couple of days afterward, I saw an article in the local newspaper about an open house for an engineering charter school. So I told my parents about it and we ended up going to the open house. Afterward, I was SO enthusiastic that I decided I wanted to open enroll into the Appleton Area School District and Tesla Engineering Charter School. In fact, I mailed my application the next day. My parents hadn't seen me so happy in such a long time they decided to put up a lot of their time and effort taking me inbetween home and school which are about twenty minutes apart. When school finally started, I found out about Team 93 somewhere, I can't even remember where. And after the FIRST (pun intended) meeting, I was hooked, since that time I have been learning what was expected of a rookie, which isn't much except be on Inventor and learn that to help out the vets on the design team.
In effect, FIRST basically chose me. It has had a major impact on my life at school, at home, and at other places, all in a positive way. |
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