Dean's List Highlight: Anika Yardi
2016 Dean’s List Award Winner Anika Yardi was chosen to speak at the 2016 Supporters Summit this past July. The Supporter Summit runs in conjunction with the Dean’s List Summit, where the 10 FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition Dean’s List Award Winners are invited to Manchester for a whirlwind of events! Anika was chosen to speak at Dean Kamen’s house, with Dean, Woodie Flowers, Don Bossi, and numerous vendors and supporters of FIRST in the audience. We’re excited to share her speech, which is a story of her journey of starting out as a student with no robotics experience, to a leader of her FIRST Tech Challenge team! It was the fall of my freshman year, 2013. My robotics journey was supposed to last for five minutes. It was the beginning of the year in ninth grade, and I had promised my new friend Delia that I would go with her to Room 361 to check out a robotics club. It was the end of lunch, and as a result, the end of the interest meeting the club had planned for