Add my congratulations to Ralph Lambert and all of the Channel Cats, on his WFFA and their RCA -- both extremely well deserved and long overdue. I have admired the way your team represents the core values of FIRST, and the St. Louis region, for many seasons. You are heroes to me and to many, many others.
Congratulations also to the awesomely dominant #1 Alliance: 1985, 3284, and 3397. It was an honor to compete with you.
And to my own 931 Perpetual Chaos and our alliance partners 1706 and 3858 -- we gave them a good run and went down fighting.
I am looking forward to seeing several St. Louis region teams at the FIRST World Championship. It is going to be an inspiring event.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)