[Renee Becker-Blau]

I'm glad to see that FIRST issued a statement about Einstein and they recognized the problems going on and will be looking into it. What happened was unfortunate but it is clear that everyone at FIRST is working their hardest to find out what happened and work to prevent issues like this in the future.

FIRST has given all of us in the FIRST community a program that has changed our lives. Sometimes bad things happen to good programs, but we have to remember that FIRST is a program that was there for us as we grew and has given us some of us the best times of our lives.

It's time to be supportive to FIRST as they work through some of these problems and I'm proud that I've already seen many people in the FIRST community who are posting positive and thoughtful comments on Chief Delphi about this situation.

Congratulations to all the teams who made it to the finals on Einstein and congratulations to Teams 180, 25, and 16 on being the 2012 World Champions!