[mrnoble]

Our team has only ever won four trophies: one for innovation, and three for artistic merit, basically. We have as much value placed on students who contribute to costume design and "theme-ing" as we do our programmers and mechanicals. Not that we don't love and appreciate our young engineers; of course we do, this is FIRST. But there are so many kids who stand hesitantly outside the room and think they don't have any thing to contribute because they "aren't good at math", and we want them to join and feel that it is their robot, too. It's gratifying to read that there are many more teams out there who appreciate the contributions of students interested in the arts.