In its two decades of running robots competitions, FIRST has inspired great amounts of fanaticism and internet traffic. From the site of usfirst.org to these very forums, it’s clear that we have many stories to tell about our times in FIRST programs.
I saw this as both inspiration and opportunity to create a focused, centralised location for these stories that tell a little about FIRST’s culture, and plenty about our dedication and compulsion to living FIRST’s message. While the Chief Delphi forums are a great place for more specific information and technical advice, I thought that a whole new site would be more open to non-FIRSTers, and more easily accessed by all.
Taking this inspiration and jumping ahead a few months, I am proud to announce MyLifeIsFIRST.
Created in a similar fashion to sites such as MLIA and FML, the general public - particularly you all - are invited submit their short stories of FIRST Fanaticism. Once submitted, they are anonymously and publicly moderated. Given enough approvals and disapprovals of the post, according to a certain algorithm, the story may be published or cast aside. This is largely to eliminate spam or stories that may not quite pull their weight (though you are encouraged to be highly inclusive).
We also encourage any users to submit suggestions via email, facebook post on our fan page, or tweet to our twitter.
This has been a project for quite a while now, and I hope you’ll be pleased with this new creation from myself and Team 2337.
Thanks for reading,
-Basel Alghanem
