At last, Cathy Sylve has received long overdue and well-deserved recognition for leadership as the founder and inspiration of the RoboHawks, FRC 1985. It is very fitting that her individual recognition comes at the RoboHawks' home event, with the team as the #1 draft on the winning alliance, and earning the Regional Chairman's Award. A trifecta. Well done, Cathy. You are my hero.
And well done, RoboHawks. Cathy set the bar high for you, and your team has met the challenge. I am very proud of you, as are many others both in St. Louis and far away.
And as in every year since 2002, I am also very proud of Perpetual Chaos, FRC 931, my all-time favorite team. Congratulations on executing an unconventional game strategy and robot design, and on the Xerox Creativity Award.
I really hope that next year's FRC calendar will not put the St. Louis Regional on the same weekend as my new team's home event.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)