#admin profiles

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(image: Wisconsin Regional 2016 as operator, with my driver)

Hi all,

I’m Kiran from team 2826 Wave Robotics (in Wisconsin). I’m a junior in high school, I currently use she/her pronouns, and I’m queer. As a team, we’re involved with First Help Now and always ready to give advice on that side of things!

I’m co-team lead, software, outreach, and whatever else needs to be done including but not limited to: mechanical, awards, fundraising, and electrical. I was also the operator for our 2016 season and hope to continue that throughout the rest of my high school robotics career.  This is my third season with FIRST, and I plan on staying involved with the community for many years to come.

(image: Indy Rage 2015, reclocking the arms of our robot Depthcharge with senior Bekka. 1720 in the background)

This year, we will be attending the Central Illinois Regional (week 3) and  Seven Rivers Regional (week 7). Hopefully, we will also be at the North Championships in St Louis.

Outside of robotics, I’m co-editor in chief of my school newspaper, I’m a 2x state forensics competitor, a JV cross country runner, and I’m involved in Arabic club. I used to play soccer and play the viola. I still play the piano, and I occasionally code for fun. Once, I did a TEDx talk. At school, I take hard classes and cry.

I love talking to people from the FIRST community! Find me on twitter @kiranloewenste01, snapchat @kiranomimus, and chief delphi @kiranl.

-Kiran L. 2826

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Blog: useless-netherlandsfacts

Name: Nika

Born in: May 2000

Gender: Female

Personal interests: I’m really interested in international politics and diplomacy, and I’m an active participant in Model UN. I also love learning new languages and doing sports!

Why did I choose to run a blog: After I had seen a few ucf blogs, I noticed that there wasn’t one about The Netherlands and I just thought it would be cool to promote our country to the world. It really feels as if I’m part of an international community of random bloggers from all over the world and it feels cool being able to represent our country in this way, so that’s why I decided to run the blog. 

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Blog: @useless-polandfacts (personal blog: @cruento-ombro, nothing special I guess but go ahead if you want)

Admin name: Celina (#celina)

Real name: Zofia (diminutive Zosia)

Year of birth: 2001

Gender: Female

Personal interests: I like traveling, discovering new things, cultures and people. I learn Japanese for few months now and it’s going pretty well, I have in plans to learn more languages and to polish (hehe) my German (it’s so bad). I love art (in any kinds), popculture and music (mostly rock, but any kinds are open for me). I’m (trying to be) open to everybody and to everything!

Why did you choose to run a blog about your contry?: I joined to @useIess-polandfacts in March 2017, I just wrote an ask and the admin who were answering me told me that he’s looking for co-admin so I decided to join because why not and tada! I’m here. Posting here helps me to be more open and confident, also I want to show people interesting stuff my country and also help and answer the question related with Poland. I’m also planing to make more detaled posts Polish culture (music, paintings, photography etc.) and language. That’s only an ideas now I have to think about it more. Also I joined to UCF family because of the memes lmao

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Blog: @useless-lebanonfacts

Name: Karen

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Personal interests: “I have a lot of interests, honestly, but I’d say my main ones are art, rugby, the history of the Soviet Union and politics.”

Why did you choose to run a blog about your country: “I saw a post of a list of UCF blogs and seeing that there was none for Lebanon, I decide to make one, since I believe my country has many stories to tell.”

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Blog: @useless-serbiafacts

Name: Branko 

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Personal interests and hobbies:“I love music and video games and I’m kind of an audio engineering and planes/tanks nerd.” Why did you choose to run a blog about your country? “I just think my country is cool.”  

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Blog: useless-czechiafacts

Name: Milan

Year of birth: 1998 

Gender: Male

Personal interests and hobbies: “Graphic design and art are my passion. Other things I like are procrastinating, technology, learning new languages (currently speaking Czech/Slovak, English, Vietnamese, German and Swedish), gaming and being a Eurovision trash”

“Why did you choose to run a blog about your country?”: “There exists one about Czechia already (useless-czechrepfacts) but I felt a bit sad that it is mostly inactive so I decided to create a new one with our newly accepted name. I just want to introduce my country to people from other parts of the world. :)”

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Blog: useless-catalanfacts

Name: Elna

Year of birth: 1999

Gender: Female

Personal interests and hobbies: “I love history and languages. I speak Catalan, Spanish, English, and some Italian. I am also studying Latin. I am very interested in minority languages, and the preservation of languages and cultures. My favourite things to do are reading, watching musicals, and learning about other cultures.”

Why did you choose to run a blog about your country? “I started this blog in July 2015 because there was no blog about our country, and I thought it would be good both so that foreigners can learn about our culture and so Catalans can find some representation on Tumblr. I also made it for personal reasons, because, like many other Catalans, I have been insulted and made fun of for being Catalan or for speaking Catalan to the point many times I’ve wished I was from somewhere else. I realised we deserve the same respect as other cultures, and I thought that through this page I could help other Catalan people and myself to love ourselves and to remember that we are doing well by keeping our language and cultures alive. Also, we needed more meme content.”