[Greg Needel]

I think that this is another example of looking at a different approach and finding success.

Everyone has heard Dave Lavery's story about the mars robot project and how 1 kid changed it all by looking at the problem from a different perspective.

I believe that you have done the same thing....I have seen some of the robots from various universities and it seems like while they had a sound method they were much more complex (not to say your project was easy) and I believe it follows the trend that looking at a project from a different point of view can be beneficial.

I congratulate you and commend you all on pushing the envelope of what people think high school students can accomplish.




On a side note it is this type of thinking that makes FIRST so unique, the ability for many different teams to come up with many different approaches to a problem and have some very creative solutions succeed.