A glorious place where FIRST-ers around the world can gather and share their experiences.

No matter where you are, no matter who you are, and no matter what language you speak, once you have been a part of FIRST®, it stays with you forever.

• Name: Renny
• Age: 19
• Team: 2145, Linden, Michigan
• Years: 6 
• Position: I was on the team for five years, and am now a mentor
• Reason: My mom is the coach, and I wanted to spend more time with her. Fell in love with robotics instead. 
• Motto: “I’ll fight you right now”
• Obsessions:  Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Supernatural, origami, sushi, Ikea, Doctor Who, concerts, hockey, machines of any sorts, and a lot more. 

• Name: Meaghan
• Age: 17
• Team: 548
• Years: 3
• Position(s): Sponsorship lead
• Reason: My eighth grade science teacher told me he thought I’d like it. He was right.
• Motto: It’s an occupational hazard.
• Obsessions: EVERYTHING

• Name: Kim
• Age: 17
• Team: 74, CHAOS, from Holland, MI
• Years: 2
• Position: Electrical & programming, Team Co-Captain
• Reason: When I switched schools my junior year, my counselor introduced me to someone from robotics because she was also a junior who wanted to go into engineering, so I ended up becoming friends with all of the robotics kids, and eventually joined just before season started.
• Motto:  ”This is CHAOS. We don’t ‘ka-frickin’-boom’ here.” (A bunch of us watched Get Smarttogether, and it doesn’t take a room full of future engineers to replace KAOS with CHAOS.)
• Obsessions:  Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Sherlock, Doctor Who, & Nerdfighteria.

Name: Ashley
Age: 18 
Team: 494 
Years: 2 
Positions: Everything from Safety Captain to Team Captain 
Reason: An old friend was persistent on bringing me to meetings, but it wasn’t until my first off season competition that I joined
Motto: You are the change you want to see in the world
Obsession: Music-Guitar, Pretzel Goldfish, Sarah Dessen Books, and Pretty Little Liars

• Name: you can call me pikachu
• Age: 16
• Team: 201
• Years: 2
• Position(s): PR
• Reason: Friend in middle school made me (I would have been on the gearheads, but I moved)
• Motto: “Furthermore, I digress” -The back of the CAD room (home to PR and animation) 
• Obsessions: dancing, hello! project, pokemon

• Name: Megan (:
• Age: 20
• Team: 815 Advanced Power, Allen Park, MI
• Years: 6
• Position(s): For the four years I was on the team, I was the president, the secretary, the treasurer, and the drive coach. Now, I’m just a supporter.
• Reason: My best friend, good thing I listened to her, or I wouldn’t have met my current boyfriend of three years from FRC 47/51.
  
• Motto: Advanced Power..building more than just robots.
• Obsessions: The Hunger Games, Josh Hutcherson, tumblr, and the Food Network ;)

• Name: Megan (:
• Age: 20 years young
• Team: FRC 815, Allen Park, Michigan
• Years: 6 years
• Position: For the four years I was on the team, I was the treasurer, the secretary, and lastly the president. Now that I’m no longer a student, I’m there for support.
• Reason: My best friend was on the team for the beginning of our freshman year, and convinced me it would be worth it.
• Motto:  Team 815..building more than just robots..
• Obsessions: Oh my, The Hunger Games, Josh Hutcherson, and The Food Network. (:

Name: Andy, “The professor”.

Age: 17

Team: 3668, The TroBots

years: 2

Position(s): Team Founder, Team Captain 

Reason: I started because I was fascinated by robotics. Stayed because it became my life.  And I loved it!

Motto: 1) Never under estimate the power of redundancy. 2) measure twice, cut once when Andy’s around, Eyeball it when he’s not. 

Obsesions: Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Minecraft. 

• Name:  Jared Coke
• Age:  18
• Team:  308, Monsters, Walled Lake Schools, MI
• Years:  2
• Position(s):  Media/Marketing Dept. Lead, Video Production Lead, Student Board Member of Monsters Robotics Inc.
• Reason:  Robotics gave me a new life, one where I didn’t need to be who everyone else wanted to me to be, but rather who I wanted to be.  Because after all, if you don’t enjoy what you do, then why do you do it?
• Motto:  I may be weird, but I’ll tell you a secret.  All the best people are.
• Obsessions:  FIRST, WLTV (Walled Lake Television), STAR WARS, Military/World History, United Kingdom, Humourous things, Weird Al, I could go on but I won’t waste your precious dash space.

• Name: Brandon
• Age: 16
• Team: 862
• Years: 3
• Position(s): Programming Leader, Secretary
• Reason: I joined because my friend asked me to come with him to check it out. I didn’t know how long I’d last, but after seeing all the robots in action at Kettering Kickoff, I knew I wanted to contribute and be a part of FIRST.
• Motto: K.I.S.S. Keep it simple, stupid.
• Obsessions: Robotics, Uhhh… I like turtles. And Pokemon :D Anime is purty cool too