Personal Narrative: The Cherry Hill East Robotics

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The first day of the Cherry Hill East Robotics club was a moment that sparked the next fours years of my life. At first, I couldn’t find the room and asked for help.
“I’m going there now, follow me,” Jack said.
At the end of the hallway, past the sawdust smelling workshop and decorative art room, lies a room with a broken door that scrapes the ground. But behind that door,lies the wondrous robotics room. What used to be a storage room has been transformed into a place where people can collaborate and construct their ideas into a reality. After the basics, I was hooked onto starting and building my first robot. The first year was very excruciating and tedious, but I was able to learn from my mistakes and gain valuable knowledge. Everything
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After another exhausting year, the robot made it’s way back to the World Championship through the design award. The design award was given to an engineering notebook that excelled above all in the state. I worked tirelessly on the notebook, adding entries and information. I was also able to attend the World Championships that year because I saved up all my money.
Even though the robot didn’t win at the World Championships, I got to experience the fierce competition the robotic teams around the world had to offer. I got to help teams and made a bunch of new friends from all over the world. I was able to practice my Chinese with some of the China teams and teach them some of the English slang used there. This gave me the motivation to do better next year and make it my goal to make it back to the World Championship. Making it back to New Jersey our parents and the school congratulated us on our success. “You’re better than most of the state,” My parents said to us to cheer us up.
I barely heard them because I was already brainstorming and filling the notebook up with models and designs for the next year's game. Making it back to the robotics room in the back of F wing, I showed the new freshmen where it was located and pushed the broken door open and said, “You’re going to learn everything

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