Niles was an incredible event, thanks to great teams and dedicated volunteers from near and far. Grant is correct that we were a little short of inspectors on Thursday, but overall the event was long on GP. That makes everything go better.
Congratulations to all the competitors. My new Michigan rookies, the Average Joes (3620) were definitely inspired by you. One personal highlight was finally getting to see their minibot deployed successfully in QF4-2. Thanks to our alliance partners 1243 and 1506!
Another highlight of the event for me was inspecting 503 and working with their team members in other ways around the event. What an incredible team! The key to growing and sustaining FIRST (in Michigan and everywhere) will be building many more Frog Forces.
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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)