[Kyle A]

There are so many this is tough to just narrow it down.

As a student on a team I have 2, first one was in 2006 the game was Aim High. We had not build the best robot, the robot we shipped was not at all the best we could do. We got to the Pittsburgh Regional and it was not going well. Our shooter made one ball all morning, and we could not fine tune it. As a team we made a decision to do a rebuild, tear the robot down to the frame, use what we had and make a dumping/ defensive robot. Well long story short, 4 hours later we walked back on the field with a new look. We ended up ranked 9th out of the 30 some teams there. The rebuild was well worth it.

With the same robot we went to the Philadelphia Regional, luck was not on our side. We ended up ranking 39th out of the 42 teams there. The team went to the alliance selections with our heads low, we figured we had zero chances of being picked. Well rounds 2 of the alliance selection started, it got to the number 3 alliance, 291 they had already picked 177, and all of a sudden we here 306. Team whole team was quiet for a few seconds, we could not believe what we had heard. Then we jumped up and cheered, and ran to the pits because the last match of the day we had gone all out and the robot needed repairs. Long story short again, the alliance ended up winning the entire regional and got to go to Nationals, because of the combined power of all 3 teams 291 offense dumping, 177 shooting and defense, and our very powerful defense.

Another experience that is probably my favorite was 2007 Pittsburgh Regional. We went home with 2 awards that year, and one of them was the Woodie Flowers Award.
Andrew Blair and myself, had decided almost last minute to submit Mr Ken Morrison for the award, we had a small team and focused on the robot first then rushed the other awards. When we submitted it, back then students couldn't you had to be logged in under the mentor, so when he left the room we rushed to upload it secretively without him knowing.
Well when they started reading off the award we new instantly we had won, it was all we could do to hold back . I will never forget the look on Ken's face when his name was announced, we knew he was shocked and proud. We also knew from that point on he would never forget our team. The team jumped up and cheered him on, along with our sister teams from Erie pa. The award was 9 years past due for such an amazing mentor. That day is one that I will never forget.