"Do you want to come with me to this competition on Saturday? They have free lunch."
Two best friends decided to attend the USA Memory Championship on a whim during their freshman year of high school. They arrived, and discovered that not only was there free lunch, but there was also free chocolate. Moreover, they found people whose brains were capable of incredible feats, and they wanted to learn how to do this and more, and so they founded the Cumberland Valley Memory Team during the fall of their sophomore year, and it has been growing ever since.
In Spring 2018, the Cumberland Valley Memory Team won the high school division of the USA Memory Championship to become the 2018 National Memory Champions.