I snuck out a little early for lunch today to drive over to Boston University where they’re having a regional robotics competition for high school students. Its put on by Boston FIRST - I think “FIRST” is a nation-wide or world-wide organization that sponsors robotics competitions for people of all ages. They’re the ones who do the LegoLeague and Mindstorms competitions.

So I snuck over there at lunch time to watch some of the competitions. I won’t get in to the details of how the competition is run. I just want to say that it was a fair amount of fun to watch. Some of the schools brought a bunch of students besides those who were driving the robots and they would dress up in identical t-shirts and cheer on their team. Some schools brought their mascots (like lions, and tigers and bears) who would whoop and holler and get the crowd stirred up. It wasn’t like a pep rally but there was a lot of excitement in the air. I only stuck around for about 30 or 45 minutes but I enjoyed myself while I was over there.

I also had a funny turkish-sausage panini sandwich at a small shop I’d never been in before.

It was fun. It made me want to get back to my robot-building efforts.

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