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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: Larissa
• Age: 17
• Team: 33
• Years: 1
• Position(s): scout and build mostly, but other stuff too, if needed
• Reason: Robots are cool. I like science in general. I hadn’t heard of it before high school, I was interested, and for the past 2 years, people kept telling me to join and that I would like it. I did, and what do you know? They were right.
• Motto: “We make the world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”; Aut viam inveniam, aut faciam; Vincit qui se vincit
• Obsessions: quotes, books, casual scientific research, personality, philosophy and general questioning, camping (I’m a Ukrainian scout), anything outdoorsy actually, skiing, saving the world, hunting werewolves, packing my schedule with ridiculous amounts of activities, probably a lot more that I can’t think of off the top of my head

• Name: Pamelot
• Age: 18
• Team: 2067 Apple Pi Robotics
• Years: 2009-2012
• Position(s): Team Captain, head scout, build team
• Reason: love of building, machines, technology, creative thinking, the best friends you’ll ever make, and the most fun you’ll ever have
• Motto: How ‘bout them apples?
• Obsessions: nothing better then the sizzling sound of arc welding in the morning