Hi guys. I just wanted to write something about my father here. My dad, as of this year, will be team 1676’s newest mentor, and will be helping with the business and non-tech subteam and sometimes with mechanical. I wanted to share a little story here.
My dad and I have always had an odd relationship. He has that wise-guy personality, and we often joke around with each other and poke fun. But on the other hand, we really have a special bond. Because of him, I have been a car enthusiast for my entire life, and we always go to car shows together. He has always been someone who is good with his hands, and likes to fix things around the house and do the yard work himself instead of hiring people to do it. Since I was young, he has passed these skills down to me, which gave me a basic knowledge of how things worked. It wasn’t until I joined robotics that I realized that all those years of fixing, tinkering, and yard work actually could help me in life. My dad may not be an engineer, being a well educated and intelligent business man, but he sure does think like one. My rookie year on the team, my father wasn’t really involved in the program. he was busy with work, and though he came to the regionals, he wasn’t a mentor or anything. Just a Pi-parent. That all changed last season, when he saw how incredible of a program FIRST was. He would check in every so often at the auto shop to see how my team and I were doing and look at the robot and other projects going on. He would even offer his opinion sometimes, which was always accepted. Even the head coach and other mentors noticed his eagerness to be involved, and this formed a good relation between them and my father. When my parents decided to let me go to St. Louis for the Championship, my dad took time off of work, which is not easy for him, made his own travel arrangements and came with the team and I all the way to St. Louis, just to see what FIRSt was really about and to support his son, and the amazing team he was part of. This really opened my eyes to how much my dad’s new involvement to the team meant to me, and I’ll never forget it. When I came home, I found out that my father had been talking to the head coach, and would become a mentor next season. For my dad to take the time out of his already busy schedule just to help the team, was truly heartwarming. Though I’m on electrical and my dad will be working with business, since that is his profession, his opinions are always insightful. I’m extremely proud to say that my father was the one who helped me get started on my interest in technology and how things work early in my life, and I’m even prouder to say that he will share his experience with my team.
Dad, you’ve always been an inspiration too me, and now I’m even happier that you can be part of this incredible program. Thanks, papa.
For My Father, David Warsoff. A business man by day, and handyman by night, and always a familyman.
From a proud and young son,
Jared L. Warsoff
Team 1676 the Pascack Pioneers
Electrical Subteam member
