Collaboration has played a major role both personally and for my community. My first experience with collaborations is when I joined a FIRST robotics team. As you can imagine, I had to work with teammates of every kind in order to produce a final product. However, the more I became involved with the team, the more I started working with people outside the team. For example, the team and I started several new fund raisers that helped promote community collaboration. These fund raisers were very successful in not only gaining the team money, but also promoting the team in the community gaining us sponsors and other help. All this effort gained me the Dean's list finalist award in the program, the most prestigious award for students in the program
