Martinez
11-09-2006, 13:58
Some of you may remember that I've been trying hard to have a FIRST team created in Owego, NY between Lockheed Martin and our local high school. Since I like to keep the people here informed of whats been going on, I figured it was time I posted.
FIRST Owego is dead.
We have no money, the teachers have dropped out, and interested has disappeared. What was suppose to be a final planning meeting tomorrow followed by a all team gear up meeting has been cancelled. I tell ya, bad moral under a time crunch is the ultimate killer and I did my best to prevent it from happening. The only silver lining is that the $2,000 Lockheed gave us *should* be able to follow me to Chuck for this season. At this point though, I'll only believe it when the check is in my hand.
On a positive note: A teacher at Waverly High School told me that the school is interested in joining FIRST. She has also shown me something that I haven't seen since starting this little quest: passion. So, I am now going to focus my efforts during the preseason to helping them ether become a rookie team or joining Chuck (which is literally 10 mins away).
Here's hoping some good eventually comes out of all this work.
FIRST Owego is dead.
We have no money, the teachers have dropped out, and interested has disappeared. What was suppose to be a final planning meeting tomorrow followed by a all team gear up meeting has been cancelled. I tell ya, bad moral under a time crunch is the ultimate killer and I did my best to prevent it from happening. The only silver lining is that the $2,000 Lockheed gave us *should* be able to follow me to Chuck for this season. At this point though, I'll only believe it when the check is in my hand.
On a positive note: A teacher at Waverly High School told me that the school is interested in joining FIRST. She has also shown me something that I haven't seen since starting this little quest: passion. So, I am now going to focus my efforts during the preseason to helping them ether become a rookie team or joining Chuck (which is literally 10 mins away).
Here's hoping some good eventually comes out of all this work.