hi guys!! it's been a while (one whole month isn't that long lol).

sooo. some Updates.. i ended up getting 7th place for my animatronic project as a finalist!! pretty good for something i had never done before. it had 3 arduinos inside (one for an LCD screen, one for an MP3 player and speaker system along with a button module, and one for the servo driver) and tons of other fun stuff. the interview process was a lot less rigorous than i imagined. next year, i'm going for top 5! i might as well run for a club position while i'm at it, right? haha, i know i'll be eating my words by the time i'm swamped with stuff to do again..

i still have 2 more robotics competitions to go to. updates on those soon.. hoping to get into finals. championship would be so cool if we qualified! i have an interview during my second event for the leadership award i was nominated for. i have high hopes that I'll be able to keep cool during it! it's gonna be lots of fun. they also might play my animation at one of the competitions, which is so much fun. i gotta fix it up a little before next week! eep! speaking of which, i'm gonna aim for a winning animation next year. i want to create something that i'll be truly proud of, like my animatronic. i think that with more practice, i could do it.

last year (and the beginning of this one) was a ton of "first times". first time animating, first time building an animatronic, first time presenting a project all on my own, first leadership position, first real competition.. i could go on. this year is all about polishing those things i did for the first time last year. does that make sense? I've only got one more shot at all of these extracurriculars because i'm graduating next year. then it's off to new projects and college stuff! when i encounter something that i have No idea how to do, i very foolishly throw myself directly at it. if someone else can master it, why can't i? what's gonna stop me, anyway? i'm very lucky to have the resources and help that i do!

anyway, that's enough word vomit for today.