My involvement in robotics is one of the most rewarding experiences of my high school career, culminating this year in my election as club President and receipt of the FIRST Robotics Dean’s List Award for the State of Delaware. Archmere Robauktics, an entirely student-run group, is a member of the FIRST Tech Challenge organization in which teams from across the country design and build robots to compete at meets. As a freshman, I joined a team that rapidly transitioned from a novice group to one that consistently placed among the top in our region. Our remarkable progress over the course of two years was due, in great part, to the skill of a large group of upperclassmen. Throughout my first and second years of high school, I had significant …show more content…
Throughout this year, I have been continually trying to rebuild the team by recruiting new members and by educating both new and returning members on the skills I learned from my predecessors. It is my purpose and central focus this year to mentor the current club members so that they will be better prepared for when I graduate on from high school. My involvement in robotics has demonstrated to me how failure is not an excuse to move on to something easier or quit altogether; failure is an invitation to strive to greater lengths and apply yourself to what you want to achieve. It would be easy for me to quit competing against large teams with engineers working side-by-side with its student members, but I would not only be quitting on my aspirations, I would be misusing the opportunities provided to me by my peers, leaving the club without instilling an understanding of the FTC (or instilling a familiarity with the FTC. It is the value written in Luke 12:48 that I hold myself to:“[f]or unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.” (King James Bible, Luke