“Pick which camp you want to attend this summer”, asked my dad during my third grade spring break pointing out a few brochures sitting on our coffee table. I always wanted to build things, and building robots sounded like fun so I picked up a robotics camp that summer. My love for building started at this point. I continued being part of my middle school robotics team and was selected into one of the prestigious robotics teams at my high school. By my junior year I was elected as the co-captain for my school’s robotics club. Clearly designing and building was my strength. As a co-captain of a student-led club with no coach, I self taught myself to mentor 4 other teams, communicated with adults, teachers, administrators and peers. We the mentor team that had co-caption and mentors had to take lot on our shoulders including getting space to work after school, getting sponsorships, budgeting, ordering parts, signing up for competitions, conducting mentor sessions, collaborating with other alliance teams in the area and state and of course building our own bot and competing in compititions.
