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: Heather (Caboose)
• Age: 16
• Team: 589 Falkon Robotics (CA)
• Years: 2 FRC, 3 FLL
• Position(s): Chairman’s Lead & Business Team
• Reason: My dad is judge advisor in Long Beach, and judge in San Diego & St. Louis. He introduced me to this amazing program :D
• Obsessions: robotics, swimming, Tumblr, cars, traveling

Name: Peter (nickname)
Age: 16
Team: 1967 (Janksters) from San Jose, CA
Years: 3
Position(s): Head of Marketing
Reason: I like writing, graphic design, taking things apart, and filing…
Motto: Make it work!
Obsessions: British TV and animes, knitting

• Name: Morgan aka Mo 
• Age: Seventeen
• Team: 1538 (The Holy Cows) San Diego, CA
• Years: Two
• Position: Manager of Chairman’s and Award Submissions
• Reason: Wanted more experience writing, ended up loving electrical engineering
• Motto:  We are leading the herd for a brighter future. 
• Obsessions:  Watching movies (Fight Club, The Breakfast Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, etc.), reading books (mostly by Paul Auster or the Scott Pilgrim comics), and painting. 

• Name: Kaitlyn
• Age: 18
• Team: 3256 (former, since I’ve graduated already)
• Years: 1
• Position(s): Business/PR team member, Team Photographer, (unofficial) Team Fangirl, (unofficial) Team Pillow
• Reason: I wanted something to do with photography, and then a good friend of mine (the current lead programmer) roped me into it.
• Motto: Astra castra, numen lumen. (Latin for “The stars my camp, divine guidance my light.”)
• Obsessions: Baking, anime, manga, video games, other languages, writing, music (K-Pop right now, although I’ll listen to anything really)

• Name: Diana
• Age: 15
• Team: 341
• Years: 1
• Position(s): Media Team
• Reason:The 3 F’s and an R: Friends, Fun, Food, ROBOTS!
• Motto: It’s 3:41!
• Obsessions: Marching Band, Glee,Starkid,Miss Daisy, etc.

• Name: Carolyn
• Age: 16
• Team: FTC 417, The Team Formerly Known as Exothermic Robotics (WA)
• Years: 2010-2011, 2011-2012
• Position(s): Spirit captain, I also am responsible for the Engineering Notebook, bugging everybody to actually write down what they’re thinking, typing it all up and compiling it neatly in one place, etc. Our notebook is awesome and definitely helped ggt us to World this year. B) (but nobody typed anything up over the summer so I am backlogged to July!!!)
• Reason: Meet cool people, gain cool skills, attend sweet nerd parties. One of my favorite things about FIRST is the diversity of skills on a team. Yes a lot of it is the robot, and there’s many specializations there, but also there is a place for art students, writers, businesspeople, web design, sewing, even (shoutout to the team from Alaska at World with the Aperture Science jumpsuits! That was awesome!) If there is a skill you have or want to learn, there is a place to practice it in FIRST. One of my good friends is a theatre/literature nut and we recruited her with a promise of heading our Promote award entry. Cameras and video editing software are definitely both technologies!! 
• Motto: Is there a problem? Have you done everything you can to fix it? Yes? Keep calm and carry on.
• Obsessions: Earthbound, robotics, Earthbound, MOTHER, cosplay, pretty clothes, Earthbound, neuroscience, space.

• Name: Víctor 
• Age: 16
• Team: 3677
• Years: One year, so far
• Position(s): failed programmer, assistant builder, Science fiction consultant
• Reason: ‘cause robotics comes as a second nature to me because I’m a big fan of science fiction
• Motto: N/A, still working on it (hey maybe that could be it)
• Obsessions: As I said before, EVERYTHING science fiction, Star Wars, Star Trek, for more check out my blog

• Name: Ryan
• Age: 16
• Team: 1676
• Years: 3
• Position(s): Carpentry Sub-Division Leader, CEO
• Reason: I saw the teams at many community events, and they had demonstrated at my middle school and at one of my Boy Scout troop’s meetings. The head coach is involved with the troop, and his sons either were or are in the troop now. The team seemed awesome and looked like a lot of fun. Joining it was the best decision of my life =)
• Motto: I never let schooling get in the way of my education (Sorry Mark Twain)
• Obsessions: Marching Band, Boy Scouts…Robotics pretty much takes up my entire life, so yeah…

• Name: Marilyn
• Age: 17
• Team: 687
• Years: 3
• Position(s): Safety Captain, Administration Member, Administration Chairwoman 
• Reason: My newly developed passion for engineering and business has taken over my life. 
• Motto: Learn, teach, and inspire. 
• Obsessions: Building robots, writing business plans, and eating.