It's more than just a robot.....
When I took my son to the high school for freshman orientation, I was more terrified than anything else. My baby boy was going to HIGH SCHOOL. My youngest. My last. My son. I was so busy worrying about what could go wrong, that I didn't even think about what could go right! He came home and said, Mom, I want to join the robotics team. I kind of gave him the "side eye" and was like...ok..... (and in my head wondered what in the everloving heck a robotics team DOES). I was worried about him being labeled or thought of as weird, and didn't even know a single THING about robotics. Boy did I learn. Did I ever. The first event I went to with him was an event called T.H.O.R., which stands for Thundering Herd Of Robots. As I sat in the stands and watched for the first time what these kids could do, I literally fell in love. Like head over heels whole heartedly in love. FIRST Robotics is a worldwide organization that promotes ...