There's nothing like World's.
There's 600 FRC teams,
thousands and thousands of students, engineers.
Every student wants to win.
Right now, we're at the FIRST Championship
in Houston, Texas.
Only a select amount of teams from 4000 around the world
were able to make it here.
Energy's through the roof.
Everyone's so pumped to be back here
since there hasn't been a championship since 2019.
And it's just like the culmination of a really good season for us.
Just incredible, honestly.
We were just misaligned with that last match.
It wasn't anything mechanical.
I mean, things broke, but
we hit the other robot when we climbed, and we only hung on one hook.
We're going to be more careful next match to make sure it doesn't break.
Yeah, we're with 971,
who's a really good team from California.
Spartan Robotics, they print a bunch of stuff on Markforges.
If the Nutrons are pushing this hardware, 3D printer-centric design,
971 is doing everything software based.
Got to win the match.
It's 1-1, it's best of three.
Yeah, we'll see how it goes.
I played basketball in middle school.
I was alright at it.
When I first joined the team in fifth grade,
I was doing multiple sports, soccer, basketball, cross-country and track.
When I went into high school, I stopped doing most of those
because I really wanted to focus on this.
I'd say between 30 and 40 hours a week
is what I usually put in during the season.
It's really just really fun and great to be here.
The entire last two years has been really challenging for everybody.
Challenging for the team.
But very few teams are capable of getting this far.
And, you know, to perform like we performed the whole way too...pretty sick.
Even though it didn't end how we wanted,
I think it's still one of the best seasons we've had in years.
The last time we made it this far was six years ago,
and we're still coming home with Finalist.
Like that's...
that's pretty crazy, especially at this event
with all the amazing teams here.
Yeah.
There's not much more we can do than play our best.
And we did that.
The common goal of FIRST is not to win,
it's to encourage the next generation of people.
All these students got inspired.
They got to experience this amazing event.
They got to learn these engineering technologies
and see science and math in action.
And it's amazing to think that these students
that are being mentored on these teams
are going to go on and create the next iPhone,
or work on AR/VR that's going to change how things are produced,
or how we live our lives at home.
Next year, I'm going to Northeastern University
to study mechanical engineering
and likely also a minor in computer science or robotics.
With engineering in the long term,
I want to do something interesting after college,
something that will help the world, hopefully.
You know, there's so many environmental problems
and other problems that engineering can really help solve.
And I want to do that.