RoboRave

And the winner is......

.....the Oldest Daughter!!!! Congratulations on your 1st place medal at RoboRave!!! Excellent Job!!!! Yahoo!!!!! We are so proud of you!!!!! And every other great saying out there!!!!!
Not just because you won a medal but even better, because you stuck with something you didn't like at first, tried hard and succeeded!

There are lots of words to describe the Oldest Daughter.  She is kind, she is caring, sweet, helpful and the list goes on and on.
Another great word you could use to describing her is "Heart".  She has a heart of gold and is always putting everyone's feeling first.  She will go out of her way to be nice to someone and just does so many amazing things for everyone.  Another reason "Heart" describes her is because she puts her heart into everything she does and actually cares about what the outcome will be.

Even with all those descriptive words I would have to say the best descriptive word for her is "Determined".  She is determined to succeed in everything she does.  She is determined to finish (and finish well) and she will give it everything she has to do so.  And she is determined to do it all with a kind loving heart.
Seriously we are very proud to be her parents.  Not many children are such all around nice people and she makes us prouder and prouder every day, no medals required.

But when the opportunity comes along where she can use her heart and determination to succeed for herself, then we will encourage her even more to do so as she deserves it.

RoboRave 2018

And now you thinking what does this all have to do with RoboRave?  Well back at the beginning of the school year she started Robotics Class and lets just say she was not a fan of it at all.  She tried hard like she always does but could just not get where she wanted to be with the class or her grades.  A girls who is used to all 90+ for grades and then a 70something grade in this class did not set well with her at all.  Of course as her parents and knowing how already amazing she is the grade did not matter to us as much as it did her.  We are smart enough to know not everyone is a robo genius and if that was not her strong spot then so be it......
......Fast forward two marking periods to last week and a very excited girl coming home explaining to her parents that if she was able to get her project done before another student that she would be able to go to Robowave that weekend?  What, Wait, Hold on?  Where? 
Okay, knowing how robotics class was going to begin with and not really making a focus of it to keep her from getting to upset about it, lets just say we were not expecting that at all from her.  Guess she has had a change of "heart" for robotics class and her determination to succeed at everything  worked out to be great character traits to have as she has come a long way in that class, even if her parents were unaware of it. 
So you guessed it already but she got her robot built first (which she was determined to do) so her and one other student from her class were off to Robowave, which is a competition for students to compete with other students on how well they can build, design, and program robots to do a variety of tasks.  With 20 teams that competed at the competition coming home with a 1st place medal is quite an achievement for the two of them.  And the fact that they used the robot that she built made this victory just a little bit more special to her.
Now I'm not going to lie, I was shocked when she even wanted to go.  Knowing how it was going before in robotics class we gave her the its okay if you don't do great, just try lecture parents give.  But I can say that we sure are proud of her for going.  We are proud of her for putting her heart and determination into Robotics.  We are proud of her for not giving up!
Yes, we are proud of her medal but more importantly we are proud of her and we are proud to be the parents of such a determined girl with a loving heart! 
Congratulations Sweetie!