I was always the shy kid.
Whenever I joined a team I felt as if I didn’t belong or fit in, for everyone
seemed so different than I was; until I was lucky enough to go to one of my dad's
work's barbeques in a park. Where,
surely enough, I spotted a robot amongst the crowd and it was love at first
sight. I would never have guessed that
there was a team competition that had robots in it, but I quickly realized that
it was not all about robots. When I
joined it was about the end of October, during the off-season, and it did not
take long before I made friends.
The season started rather slowly for me because we were
designing for about 3 to 4 weeks, it was not all that fun but necessary for
building the robot. Once we started building, things got interesting very
quickly. I finally got to fully operate the machines at BRT, a machine shop
that we build our robots at, that I had been certified on during the
off-season. Piece by piece the robot
was finally built and was somewhat ready for competition because we ran out of time
while debugging the robot. The competitions where the best, so much
excitement, so many other cool robots, and it got even better because I was one
of the drivers for my robot. We did not
win the competition but we got many other awards. In the end I am thankful for
the FRC program because it gave me the opportunity to be with people whom have
similar interests and to also make many new friends.
-Nick Z.
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