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List of Speakers for Kickoff, including 2 former Presidents!

Found an article detailing the list of speakers for Saturday's Kickoff broadcast:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...minaries-FIRST

The list, in order of appearance:
-- Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report
-- Jon Dudas, FIRST President
-- Former President, George W. Bush
-- Walt Havenstein, FIRST Chairman
-- Chairman’s Award video by FIRST Team 359, Hawaii
-- Former President, Bill Clinton
-- Dr. Woodie Flowers, FIRST National Advisor
-- Scholarship video by Jean Zheng, Stephen Hall, Yale University
-- Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company
-- Dean Kamen, FIRST Founder & President of DEKA Research & Development Corp.
-- Kate Pilotte, Collin Fultz, FIRST Kit of Parts Engineers
-- Aneesh Chopra, White House CTO
-- Alex Kipman, General Manager, Hardware Incubation, Xbox, Microsoft Corp.
-- Charlie Bolden, NASA Administrator
-- Jim Heppelmann, CEO, PTC
-- FRC Game Design Committee Introductions
-- Bill Miller, Director, FIRST Robotics Competition
-- Team Safety Animation winner, FIRST Team 3705 Arrowbots
-- Dr. Aidan Browne, Chief Referee, FRC
-- will.i.am, Grammy-award winning artist/producer and Director of Creative Innovation, Intel
-- and other Special Guests
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