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: Michelle
• Age: 16
• Team: 4347 Mechanical End
• Years: 1 year
• Position: Talking to the judges and Safety Captain. 
• Reason: Escape from my daily life and it makes me happy.
• Motto:  ”Create your own path & do things for yourself”
• Obsessions:  Fashion. Star Wars. Art. Meteorology.

• Name: Melanie
• Age: 15 years young
• Team: 987, The High Rollers. Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Years: Since August of 2011
• Position(s): Chairmans, scout, Vex programmer at camps and in class.
• Reason: Because my sister was on it and it’s something I do enjoy myself. And we have a BA team.
• Obsessions: Music, mainly All Time Low, tumblr, Harry Potter, poetry, math, food.

Name: Dilpreet
Age: 17
Team: 1259, Paradigm Shift
Years: 2 in FLL, 3 in FRC. Next year is my fourth and final year in FRC.
Position: Build team leader.
Reason: I did FLL in middle school because it looked fun, and FRC seemed like the right choice when I hit high school.
Motto: Roll with it.

• 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: Marisa
• Age: 16 Years Old
• Team: FIRST Team 2010 The Champion Lightning Bots
• Years: 2 Years
• Position(s): Photo and Video Captain, PR, Off and On Build
• Reason: When I first became a part of FIRST, everything happened so fast. Since it was my first year of high school I had no idea what to expect so I just went with it. Before I knew I was getting straight A’s, and becoming a better person. I had no idea that I was going to change that much, for the better. Robotics has introduced me to people I would have never imagined would be the people I look up to, and love. I love FIRST, and EVERYTHING it has to offer.
• Motto: “I see whatcha did there”
• Obsessions: FIRST, The Interwebs, Memes, Reading, Writing, Painting, Art in general, Doctor Who, The Office, Blogging(Not Tumblr, but on another blogging site I write), Video Production/Editing,  and Photography. Oh yeah and robots. 

• 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.