I'm going to go ahead and point out the obvious here, but one of the things an elected government official is supposed to do is follow through on promises they made to the voters, and Governor Granholm apparently isn't following through on her promises. I'm actually planning on writing a letter to her even though I'm from Indiana to express that her turning down the invite was a big mistake. If she does respond and attends a regional later in the year, this will be a big victory for FIRST and Public Schools in Michigan. I think everyone needs to send a letter to your governor asking them to come see what FIRST is all about. For example, here in Indiana our former governor (who passed away last fall while serving his last year in office) was informed about FIRST because of the work of Libby Ritchie from Team 393. She made the governors office aware of what FIRST was, and a couple years ago FIRST started helping with the Governor's widow's program "Indiana 2016" which basically is going to help improve education standards in the classroom including better science and technology curriculum. Teams have done demos for her program at the State Fair the last few years and is really starting to get the FIRST name out here in Indiana. I stress the importance of this and request that everyone invite their governor to come and if they don't come, have teams flood them with letters. The children of the future will thank you.