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I would like to relate two anecdotes relating to the effectiveness of this program.

I did like most of us in FIRST and spread the news about this program. A co-worker watched it with his family. His 8yo daughter saw the robots, thought they were cool and asked her dad if she could build one like the girl on the Arizona team. We are now mentoring their FLL team.

Next story, I received an email from our regional director forwarding an email from a mother who wanted to get her son involved with a team. Joaquin will be on our team during the summer then we plan to start a team at his school in the fall. I asked the mother today how she learned about FIRST. She saw the special on CNN.

Just two stories that show that the CNN special has been able to reach beyond the echo chamber of us who already know about FIRST and affect people in a way that brings them to FIRST looking for the same things they saw in the special.

Thank you to CNN and Soledad O'Brien for putting this together.