[Renee Becker-Blau]

GO FIRST had a great time at this event this past weekend. We were able to network with so many other teams and really learned a lot about how to make quad-copters work! We have a number of students who saw FIRST for their first time this weekend, and even more who had been in FIRST but had never been to the Championship. This was truly a fantastic event that has motivated our members. We look forward to participating next year and are expecting to demo our quad-copter and ground-vehicle around campus and in the community.

It was also amazing to see the finals of the event and how fantastic the quads looked when they were competing against each other. We will have pictures and video coming up soon! We encourage everyone to check it out.

For some background on our program GO FIRST is a FIRST Support Organization at the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities. We were created in December 2009 and had seven members. Our goals are to support the FIRST program by helping area teams, help our students through the student in FRC to a mentor in FIRST transition period, and this year we were a Collegiate Aerial Robotics Demonstration Team. We have done presentations at a number of events around the Midwest region, have helped to mentor or advise 21 FRC teams, and have about 30 members involved with our program.

Feel free to PM me if you have more questions about GO FIRST!

Renee