[ahecht]

I have to say that the opening ceremonies were very, very touching. I've never heard a trumpet sing like that, and applaud FIRST for going with the unconventional approach.

Unfortunatly, most of our mentors (including our faculty advisor and our two student representatives) missed seeing us winning the Leadership in Control award, because we expected that they would run the finals before the award ceremony, and we were en-route to the hotel to drop off all our equiptment from the pits when the award was given out. The rest of the team was busy reclaiming our giant trash bag 190 in the pits (changing it from "88" to "190 loves 88"), and had to sprint over to Einstein to claim our award. Still, no one on the team knows what they said about us. Oh well, we will at least know what to expect next year.