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We won EI in 2010, our third year. I think we won because we had done something fairly innovative (and absolutely necessary on our rural island) - brought students from all 4 high schools together to form a team, when the two individual teams were folding (or at risk of folding) due to various issues. We managed to find a solution that enabled our students to continued to be inspired, and we also brought a basic understanding of what engineering is and what degree and career paths there are in the STEM fields to many students who really had no idea.

That is why I think we won it. Our robot was OK, but we finished middle of the pack on Newton so definitely not world-class.