[Tim Koch]

On behalf of the Regional Planning Committee, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all the teams that came and volunteers who took on the challenge of a week one inaugural regional and made it feel like we had been doing this for years! Your attention to detail, willingness to change things up to make something run smoother, and your overall positive attitudes and responses were simply stellar.

Whether it was engaging in conversation with teams in the pits, or watching you cheer from the stands, sharing your seats with visitors (we had an overwhelming response from the local community of first time people to an Robotics competition), to the closing rendition of YMCA, it was the “hardest fun” we have ever been part of.

We knew this regional was going to be competitive when we saw the registration list. Anyone willing to share what the best match they were part of? Good communication, good strategy session, good game play? Best shot under pressure?

Again, our thanks on behalf the entire Regional Planning Committee for the CIR.