[Mr.Frishman]

3999(Shadetree Robotics) is not UIL eligible. We knew this when we started the team in 2012. Our sole purpose for existing is to allow students from ANY school to participate in FIRST Robotics. Our exclusion from the UIL State Championship does not in any way diminish what what we are trying to accomplish. I sit on the Steering Committee for TRR and will continue to do so. 3999 will go through the same process to apply for an invitation to TRR that everyone else will go through. It is possible we will not get an invitation. The decision to make the UIL Championship part of TRR this year is something we will have to live and work with. Rant Over.