Same here. I live right next door to Frisco. We had a DOD engineer dad built a robot for a winning selection here. Everyone with a brain knows most of these competitions are won by the parent, not the kid. My parents didn’t help with mine and my father was NASA. It was a matter of principle. Meh, was still second place.
Second place is pretty darned good considering that! (Though of course having your dad at NASA likely at least opened your mind to it ahead of many other kids without that.)