Could you explain to us, what is FRC?
Um… FRC is a robotics competition… Mainly uh…. the main participants are high-schoolers. There’s a mentor group as well because, you know, power tools. You don’t let kids work with those on their own. Um… Each year uh… actually I think it’s like the first Saturday of… Saturday or Sunday of each year. uh... FIRST uh... announces what their er what their competition is going to be for the year. Then all the teams have six weeks to build the robot, get it functional; all of that. And then, over the next few months I think, I don’t know the dates too well, there’s uh… competitions yeah, there’s uh… competitions, the group I was part of, robodogs, FIRST team four thirty five [435] , we tended to go to two competitions a year. If you uh… If you basically win the competitions, you uh… what is it, if you win the competitions you be, err… you get the chance to go to nationals which is basically the finals for uh of the stuff, which has something like four hundred teams. That’s a lot. Umm…. but yeah we build robots that do things like throw frisbees.
Alright, well, so what sparked your interest in FRC?
Um… Personally, I, well I am an engineer for one, but uh… I enjoyed the programing aspect of it, and people kept on telling me I was supposed to err uh I should join it and when I joined there were people saying I should have joined years before, so yeah.
Ok cool, um… why did you choose to be a member uh… I guess that’s kind of redundant
Yeah… kind of
Ok, um… so, when did you say you joined FRC?
Uh… it was my pshh… Junior year… of high school, and, what is it I think they have you join in the uh… fall end of stuff…
Alright, so, what kind of cool things did you do in FRC?
We built robots. Robots that threw frisbees. Uh… mostly just building robots. There are people who model and stuff but, mostly just building robots.
And what was your greatest achievement?
Um… well our first… or the first year I was part of it our robot made it to nationals. The second year we did pretty well um.... what was it in Virginia we came in second place overall… and I was the one who drove the robot that year so I’m kind of happy about that.
And uh… how these events impacted your life so far?
Um… reinforce the idea that it’d be a good idea to go into a job in computer programing. Otherwise I’m not really good at seeing other stuff too well but yeah.
Um… FRC is a robotics competition… Mainly uh…. the main participants are high-schoolers. There’s a mentor group as well because, you know, power tools. You don’t let kids work with those on their own. Um… Each year uh… actually I think it’s like the first Saturday of… Saturday or Sunday of each year. uh... FIRST uh... announces what their er what their competition is going to be for the year. Then all the teams have six weeks to build the robot, get it functional; all of that. And then, over the next few months I think, I don’t know the dates too well, there’s uh… competitions yeah, there’s uh… competitions, the group I was part of, robodogs, FIRST team four thirty five [435] , we tended to go to two competitions a year. If you uh… If you basically win the competitions, you uh… what is it, if you win the competitions you be, err… you get the chance to go to nationals which is basically the finals for uh of the stuff, which has something like four hundred teams. That’s a lot. Umm…. but yeah we build robots that do things like throw frisbees.
Alright, well, so what sparked your interest in FRC?
Um… Personally, I, well I am an engineer for one, but uh… I enjoyed the programing aspect of it, and people kept on telling me I was supposed to err uh I should join it and when I joined there were people saying I should have joined years before, so yeah.
Ok cool, um… why did you choose to be a member uh… I guess that’s kind of redundant
Yeah… kind of
Ok, um… so, when did you say you joined FRC?
Uh… it was my pshh… Junior year… of high school, and, what is it I think they have you join in the uh… fall end of stuff…
Alright, so, what kind of cool things did you do in FRC?
We built robots. Robots that threw frisbees. Uh… mostly just building robots. There are people who model and stuff but, mostly just building robots.
And what was your greatest achievement?
Um… well our first… or the first year I was part of it our robot made it to nationals. The second year we did pretty well um.... what was it in Virginia we came in second place overall… and I was the one who drove the robot that year so I’m kind of happy about that.
And uh… how these events impacted your life so far?
Um… reinforce the idea that it’d be a good idea to go into a job in computer programing. Otherwise I’m not really good at seeing other stuff too well but yeah.
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