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Steve-my errand was to pick up our special guest, Dr. Woodie Flowers, at the airport. It wasn't exactly hardship duty and they didn't exactly have to twist my arm. Thank you for your shout out and congrats to your hardworking team on your well earned RCA!

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I know it wasn't, I think anyone would be happy to go pick him up, but I'm guessing they wanted you out so they could surprise you! :)

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Team 1629 - GaCo would like to congratulate C-Company and your amazing alliance selections, you all deserved the hard fought win!!!! 836 -Robobees, congrats on your second RCA in a row, that is awesome. 27 - Rush, congrats on your EI award, it was fun competing against some stout Michigan teams!!! Now on to Buckeye, where hopefully we can qualify for Championships to compete with you all again!!! Great Regional!!!

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Thank you for recognizing us. We definitely improved, not only through out the day, but also over the past year, going from near to last to 9th was an amazing improvement.

btw: Early during the competition we were ranked 53rd due to our two immediate losses.

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Here is the link to the "2012 Chesapeake Preview" that was shown during the competition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpaTeti9sGc

I plan on uploading all the videos from Saturday afternoon's award ceremony this week.

I would also like to reiterate how great the Regional was this year. Eliminations had a surprising outcome, but still exciting nonetheless. Congratulations to 181, 192, 2377, and 3419 on winning. Our matches in quarterfinals were very close and exciting.

Congratulations to Team RUSH on the Engineering Inspiration Award. It is an award well deserved. One day we hope to accomplish as much as your team has.

RoboMom (Jenny) congratulations on having the honor of picking up Woodie Flowers. Even bigger congratulations for earning the Volunteer of the Year Award. There is no one else that I feel is more deserving.

To everybody else - I had fun interacting with all of the teams and meeting a lot of first time teams to Chesapeake. Good Luck at your future Regional/District events, and we hope to see most of you at Championships!

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Congratulations to Steve and Team 836 on the Chairman's Award!
Very well deserved and a great team that has inspired us for many years.

Glenn

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Thanks, Glenn!

Our success is only due to "standing on the shoulders of giants". Teams, such as yours, that have always been there for us, mentoring us, guiding us. You are such an inspiration to us!

I'm looking forward to seeing you in St. Louis!

Steve

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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4A509A0339180EBF

Some of the seeding and elimination matches.

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I would like to thank all the folks that ran the Chesapeake Regional. They were all as good as they come. Also I would like to thank the teams. While we were far from our homes we never felt like we were not at home. I hope some time in the future we can come back to this great event and the great people that run and attend it. Thank You.:)

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To say much of the same as Seth Mallory, in the post above, Team RUSH had a great time over the weekend, and we thank the coordinators for putting together such a great regional (The first one I've ever been to!) and the teams for making it a great time!

Also, thank you for all the congratulations on the EI award. It's was definitely an honor to be recognized outside of Michigan.

My personal highlight, as I told several people, was meeting teams who I had never seen before, and talking to all the members.

I also enjoyed working with the other ambassadors Friday and Saturday, I love the opportunity to speak about FIRST to everyone I possibly can, so this was a wonderful opportunity.

Again, thanks to everyone for making it a great weekend!

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Lost and Found Items: All Lost and Found items get packed on our trucks and come back to FIRST headquarters. All lost item requests will be addressed after the Championship Event (when all trucks are back in Manchester). NOTE: most of the lost and found items at Chesapeake were clothing & tools-including some power tools.

KeatonM, we have a proud tradition of trying to involve as many students as we can in the event. The student ambassador role is a win-win for all. For the local students, we then know who to call on in a hurry for presentations and outreach on behalf of FIRST in the area. The student singers have always made us proud. We are glad you had a great weekend.

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The recap with photos from the event and of all the teams who received trophies is now posted on the mdfirst.org website: http://www.mdfirst.org/programs/firs...2-results.html

MDFIRST intends to keep adding to the collection, so please let us know if you have more photos, videos, media hits, or whatever.

Thanks all.

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All,

I am sorry for the delay in getting up the videos from Saturday Evening's Award Ceremony. Nonetheless here they are:

Industrial Design Award
Quality Award
Gracious Professionalism Award
Team Spirit Award
Coopertition Award
Judges' Award
Rookie All Star Award
Highest Rookie Seed
Industrial Safety Award
Regional Finalists (part 1)
Regional Finalists (part 2)
Regional Finalists (part 3)
Regional Winners (part 1)
Regional Winners (part 2)
Regional Winners (part 3)
Regional Winners (part 4)
Engineering Inspiration Award
FIRST Dean's List Finalist Awards
Regional Chairman's Award

Again, sorry for the delay. However, as a bonus, I hope you all enjoy Steve Shade Dancing!

Feel free to use these for any of your teams' promotional use!

PS - Jenny, what needs to happen in order for these to be on the MD FIRST site?

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Jenny,

Here is an article on the RoboBees

http://www.thebaynet.com/news/index....story_ID/26758

Thanks!

Steve

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Sorry I wasn't clear on this. Send all articles and video and photos to the Regional Director, Bill Duncan. He is responsible for spearheading content on www.marylandfirst.org site (and has done a fantastic job). Thanks.