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Re: Team 907
As main contact and Lead Mentor for Team 907, I would like to formally apologize to our friends, colleagues and fellow teams of GTR East and to the FIRST community for the inappropriate and hurtful comments that were posted in a recent Chief Delphi thread using, what appeared to be the team's account name without the prior knowledge of its leaders or senior mentors.
We would like to assure the FIRST community that Team 907 is taking this unfortunate incident very seriously. As soon as we became aware of the situation, we took action to identify the individual(s) involved and corrective measures will be taken.
I personally must state that Teams 1114 and 2056 have served as models to Team 907 and to the FIRST community. I have great respect and admiration for their accomplishments and look to them, as they lead by example.
Team 907's leaders and mentors consider this incident a failure on our part and take full responsibility for the unsportsmanlike conduct of one or two individuals. In particular, Team 907 wishes to publically apologize to Teams 1114 and 2056 for any comments attributed to our team that diminished their great accomplishments or impugned their reputations. We plan to offer our apologies privately to both teams at the Greater Toronto West Regional. We have also contacted Karthik Kanagasabapathy personally to express our regrets.
We were ecstatic to compete among the best at the Greater Toronto East Regional where Team 907 had the best showing in its history. Our favorable standing has given our students the passion and motivation to compete even harder at GTR West. It is the championship teams like 1114 and 2056 that have been instrumental in creating this drive. Unfortunately, that same intense passion can boil over negatively without mentor guidance, which we profoundly regret. The lessons that our students learn through FIRST are not just limited to soldering and riveting.
We hope that our FIRST colleagues can put this isolated incident in the past and see Team 907 for what it truly is: fiercely competitive but always friendly, fair and fun.
One of the greatest accomplishments of our weekend at GTR East was the opportunity to have successful coopertition with the championship teams. This was, of course, truly inspiring. We hope to do much more of that at GTR West.
Our comittment to playing well and playing fair remains our cornerstone.
See you on the field!
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