[milton1205]

Congratulations on surviving your first competition. The shock and awe are over for a while.
The relationships you build at events like this are priceless. The best teams the ones are ready willing and able to help you develop your team's full potential. SparX will always be grateful to the veteran team X-Cats (191) for helping us get started. Take advantage of the teams in your area or on Chief Delphi for help, tips and encouragement.
I'm sorry we didn't have the opportunity interact more with your team. My favorite memories of this event have little to do with the wins and losses, but how well our students performed and the teams we helped. Even our student alumni (who are a big part of another regional) helped the event staff. Coming in second is a great teachable moment for our lessons learned meeting as well.

It's not about the robot or even the outcome of the competition. It's about developing the students and perhaps even the events we attend.

Mitch Milton
SparX mentor

P.S. I've seen that FIRST listens very carefully and to our feedback about every competition. Take advantage of this.