imacoolkid
Oct 31, 2015
Undergraduate / VEX Robotics tournament - I gained better programming and design skills, engineering interest [2]
The essay can only be 150 words (which exactly how many words i have). I would like some feedback on the content of the essay as well as the mechanics. Thanks in advance!!
Robotics - What single activity listed in the activity section are you most proud of and why?
My team's first ever VEX Robotics tournament consisted of ogling at the complicated robots that many teams had built, wondering why we didn't have NASA sponsoring us and ranking in the bottom 10 teams. Four years later, as I look back upon our robotics career, I realize that we have grown immensely. While my team did not have the expensive materials that other teams had, we were able to learn from our mistakes every year and were soon able to reach the stage where we could compete against these teams in the finals of the tournaments. While robotics may not be the extracurricular that I succeeded the most in (violin), it has helped me better my programming skills, taught me valuable design skills and sparked an interest in an engineering career. I am proud of how much my team and I have learned and improved since that very first tournament.
P.S. The essay is for Columbia university.
The essay can only be 150 words (which exactly how many words i have). I would like some feedback on the content of the essay as well as the mechanics. Thanks in advance!!
Robotics - What single activity listed in the activity section are you most proud of and why?
My team's first ever VEX Robotics tournament consisted of ogling at the complicated robots that many teams had built, wondering why we didn't have NASA sponsoring us and ranking in the bottom 10 teams. Four years later, as I look back upon our robotics career, I realize that we have grown immensely. While my team did not have the expensive materials that other teams had, we were able to learn from our mistakes every year and were soon able to reach the stage where we could compete against these teams in the finals of the tournaments. While robotics may not be the extracurricular that I succeeded the most in (violin), it has helped me better my programming skills, taught me valuable design skills and sparked an interest in an engineering career. I am proud of how much my team and I have learned and improved since that very first tournament.
P.S. The essay is for Columbia university.