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It's more than just a robot.....

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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 ideas like Diversity.  Cooperation.