[BrendanB]

Thanks for the compliments guys! Justin and Damiaen our team has had a blast working with your teams this year and it was so neat that we all went to IRI in the same year! Really excited to see what 2014 brings to New England in districts but I'm looking forward to the DCMP!

The autonomous climber probably goes down as one of those crazy mechanisms that really pushed our team beyond what I think any of us thought was possible but at the end of the day it is extremely simple and amazingly executed! A huge congratulations has to go to our current freshman (he was in middle school last year) who led the design and our programmer/driver who spent so much time throughout the season debugging, testing, iterating, and re-writing the code for the autonomous climb routine! I am still amazed at how it went from being a 55 second climb at our first event to a 20 second, and finally a 15 second climb all through code. Love iterations!