I started my robotics carrier in my freshman year of high school by taking Intro to robotics programming, a prerequisite to robotics projects. I did this during covid, programming a virtual robot to do certain tasks like moving disks to their proper locations or picking up trash off of the sea floor. While I did enjoy this and learned a lot from it my real passion was for building. I missed out on the first semester of robotics projects in my sophomore year. I did join the class finally in my second semester and joined team 2990R. I helped them build and program the robot for what was going to be my first vex robotics tournament, the state championship. Now since this was my first tournament I was naturally a little nervous at first but I quickly got into the grove and went to queue up at my first qualifying match ever. This was my time to shine as I was the driver of this team. I spent many hours building and fixing this robot as well as driving it. I quickly surpassed my teammates in skill and I was going to drive at this tournament. And I must say I did very well winning almost all of our matches and qualifying in 3rd place in our division. We made it all the way to the finals but our teammates lost the match so we could not move on to the division finals. After the tournament, the robot we worked on got dismantled and I build Patricia, my first-ever robot. Overall my first year of robotics projects was a roaring success and so much fun filled with priceless experiences and many more friends. But it gets even better because this year I have robotics projects for both semesters. That means I have twice as long to prepare and build, so I did. Quickly whipping up my first robot in about a month, Astrid was born. I had my first working in