Ken,

It is the people you meet at FIRST that are the real reason the eperience is so rewarding. You are responsible for one of my "Golden FIRST" moments. It was at an off season event. You were trying to open a coffee can with a tire iron. I guess no one had ever taught you about how to use the weird doohickee on the Swiss army knife.

I laughed at the time and shook my head - "Our future engineers!" I thought. But all technology is like that - you go a lot further if you have a good foundation - and FIRST does that so very well.