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Re: 2013 Lessons Learned: The Positive

Designing and building a robot for this year's challenge was a blast, and incredibly useful from a student perspective of learning about actual tradeoffs in design.

Dean's List finalists getting those headphones (a friend of mine was a finalist, she listened to them all the way back to Minnesota). Those things are seriously pretty.

Full match schedule on Galileo. I know some people probably weren't a fan of this, but as a spectator, it was an absolute blast seeing all those matches played. Watching 2169 hit almost every shot from cross court was one of my match highlights this season.

Better information for the Dean's List Ceremony-- it wasn't in a freaking bunker this year!

Karthik getting to talk for a long time after the official presentation ended. This was seriously my absolute favorite part of championships. I've never learned so much from one person in so little time.

The obscene amount of swag getting handed out in from the companies with booths (seriously, a friend of mine got a desktop tool carousel-y thing).

Overall, an incredible season. I can't wait to see how FIRST improves on things next year.
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