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+1. Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
+2. The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
+	1. Talk about the challenges with team communication in the previous robotics season and how we were still able to eventually get the robot working
+	2. WSMC States two years ago when team member left and we still got 4th(?)
+	3. Doing first math competitions and feeling like I didn't fit with those who had been doing it for years and learning to push myself anyway and work to improve
+	4. Doing most of the wiring on the robot Sophomore year and learning while doing it
+	5. talk about first combat robotics competition and then the second one and how much I improved
+3. Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?
+4. Reflect on something that someone has done for you that has made you happy or thankful in a surprising way. How has this gratitude affected or motivated you?
+	1. Mr. Evans pushing me in geometry and how that lead to me working harder to learn more math and push myself.
+5. Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.
+	1. Talk about discovering BattleBots and how that lead to combat robotics and a love of engineering
+6. Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?
+	1. Circuit board design and the challenge of finding out where each trace will go and how everything can fit together to form one working whole
+7. Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you've already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design