Originally Posted by Courtneyteam330

I just wanted to say congrats to teams 980, 69, and 314 on being an awesome alliance. The matches we had with you were so much fun and you all have awesome bots. I hope to see you all at Nats in a few weeks!

Thanks you to team 1197 for picking us as you partners even though we were not seeded that high. That took a lot of faith and we really appreciate it. lol (PS It was hanging out with you guys last night I hope to see y'all soon) and Thanks to Chatsworth team 22 for being awesome partners. I am so glad we were able to be with you guys.

To team 294: Wow awesome job!!!! :D Congrats! You guys really deserved the Chairman's Award! Thanks for everything!

And to all the other award winners and people we competed with and against thanks and congrats!

Oh yeah and congrats to my dad for being one of the regional volunteer winners!

Originally Posted by Penny

A big congratulations to Ric Roberts for his volunteer of the year award!!!!!

For those who don't know it, Ric almost single-handedly has brought Raytheon into the FIRST family. Not only are they now a large sponsor of the Southern California Regional, but they also sponsor multiple teams. They also just instituted scholarships for FIRST college students and Ric just arranged for some FIRST college seniors from across the country to be flown to LA for a college fair. This company has figured out what FIRST is all about and is more than willing to use FIRST to develop its upcoming workforce.

It's taken Ric several years of hard work to get Raytheon to this point, but he never gave up. Add to that hours and hours of work on the regional committee and as an inspector and ...

Proud to have him on the Beach Bot team as well,

Penny Ross
team mom and school contact
Hope Chapel Academy