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Re: Make sure to watch the white house science fair!
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Originally Posted by Cynette
Just curious...I know why FRC 27 was selected for the WH Science Fair. How were the other teams selected?
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Who knows? All we know is that the three teams got invited on Thursday before the Tuesday event.* We (1915) probably got invited because we were local. Maybe demographics had something to do with it. Although we'd dearly love to have some, we certainly don't have any delusions about having earned an innumerable collection of blue banners to show at an event. We're just a run of the mill team who has shown up every year since 2006.
From what our lead mentor told me last night, there were two students, the robot, and that was it at the WH. Our robot, which was to one corner of the stage, more or less served as a prop. Which was perfectly ok with us, as two of our leading sophomore students, and potential team leaders, had the opportunity of a lifetime to go to the White House to represent not only our team, but FIRST in general. If that doesn't inspire a student, I don't know what will.
*--I say all three teams got invited on Thursday because our lead mentor talked with the other mentors at the WH, and they too got the call on Thursday. And they are in Chicago and Detroit, and had to travel to DC.
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Jim Grove, Mentor
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(2007-2017) 1915, McKinley Tech HS, Washington, DC
(2009) 2932, Mid-Pac Institute, Honolulu, HI (Rookie Season)
(2011) 2425, Hillsborough HS, Tampa, FL
(2013-2015) 4464, College Park, MD, 2013 Rookie All Star Winner and 2014 Regional Champions, Washington, DC
FIRST is not rocket science. But it is like drinking from a fire hose.
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