[Renee Becker-Blau]

Someone should help me clarify this, but there was a group of schools who attended the FIRST for Life conference in 2010. It was there where Dean Kamen talked and inspired the founders to create this event. ITR ran with it and started designing the game. There were a number of other teams involved as well but I'm not sure exactly who they are. The numbers of the teams are based on who joined when and GO FIRST team #5 was the first to join after their Kick off December 3rd, but we didn't finalize team numbers until later.

Through this process there were other teams who indicated interest in attending but due to funds or lack of notice of the game, they were unable to field a team.

I'm not sure why there's such a great concentration around the Midwest though. Does anyone else have other thoughts?

Also J93Wagner if you decide to come visit UofM-TC let us know!

Thanks,

Renee