First of all may I say that you truly made a great post here. Reading what you team and other have accomplisched is a great insperation. Here is our list of that we have achieved this year:
- Won the Engeneering Insperation eventhough we are only a second year team.
- Once again being able to travel to the north carolina regional and the world championships comming all the way from the netherlands.
- Got great positive reactions from a lot of the teams that we spoke at the nc regional.
- Finally got a good pack of sponsors behind us after a though year, since we are the first and only dutch team at this point and no one had heard of first before we existed.
- spreading the teachings of first through countless technical converences and presentations including two award winning ted talks by our inspirering team captain.
- Orginising and hosting europes biggest FTC regional, 48 teams with a total of 9 differend nationalities, eventhough we had never orginised an FTC regional before.
- Helping in the orginisation of the german munich FTC regional.
- Helping in the orginiation of a big belgium Fll regional.
- Orginising and helping out at 2 major fll regional.
- Starting a third Fll regional in our area, includig helping appox 40 Fll teams to get started.
- Inplementing FIRST in the dutch school system.
- Taking a dutch FTC team with us on our trips to nc and st louis to show them FRC.
- Helping two new FRC team to spawn in europe. The second Dutch team, comming from the FTC team that we are taking with us on our trips, and the first ever italian FRC team.
- Planning ahead for 2016 to have a super dutch FTC regional. Spoilers: planning on a 3 day event with 4 divisions and 96 teams!
Planning ahead for 2018 to have the first ever european FRC regional. Creating an european championships that includes the whole line of FIRST with the size of worlds!
And the list goes on but these are the things that im most proud of. The enthausiasm within the team is sky high and, like the judges said in our rapport for our Engineering Inspiration award: This team knows no boundries and they are passionalty painting a portet of inspiration, for an entire nation!
We could not have done this without the help of countless amerikan teams with Team 122, the nasa knights as sister team to us, showing us the ways of FIRST.
If you wanna know more about our plans for the European Championships or if you would love to have your team join this amazing event, then feel free to contact us, check out our website (
www.teamrembrandts.com) or come and see us in st louis!
Cant wait to see all the teams at worlds again. To all the teams compeading, good luck and have fun! And to all the other team, I hope to meet you some day!