FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC)
"FIRST exists to prepare the young people of today for the world of tomorrow." The FRC is a competition that challenges students to design and create a robot which will compete against robots made by teams from around the world.
The challenge requires a team to be able to fundraise, design, engineer, create, and program in order to get their robot ready for competition.
Since no one person can do all of this alone, teams will have to excersise teamwork, leadership, cooperation, and gracious professionalism.
The combination of these skills in order to reach a real-world goal is the perfect experience for getting students ready for the real world.
Team #8339: Penticton Robotics
As a member of the Penticton Robotics team, I managed communications between members and also provided support in assembly, design, and fundraising.
This develloped not only strong communication skills, but also important tools for extinguishing conflict and mediating disagreements.
It was not unusual for highschool students to have drama and disagreements were all to common in the stressful period that was the preparation of the robot, but this stress and these disagreements forced us to develop a level of professionalism and mediation skill if we wanted to complete our project before the deadline.
Personal Sentiments
Overall, I am very happy to have participated in the FRC, I have grown as a person and as a professional, I have gained lifelong friends, I will forever have a proud memory as a member of the team, and I met bbno$.
