[Chris Fultz]

Thanks to all of the teams who made the 2004 IRI such a great event. The finals was one of the best I have seen in a long time - right down to the wire!

AB thanked most everyone during the closing, but I want to add my special thanks to a bunch of people who made it a great event.

Libby and Andy - my co-coordinators. Each of us has strengths and contacts to make the IRI come together. This was a fun planning team.

Paul and Dan and Josh and DJ - what a great announcing team!

Comau Pico for the machine shop

Scott, Nancy Hoff and the Cyber Blue Parent Crew - the parent crew took care of Friday night dinner (did you know they cooked about 1100 sandwiches!!) and the hospitality rooms for the volunteers and judges, plus helped with field reset, T-shirt sales, check in, and lots of other jobs.

Team 393 parents - helped with check-in, shirt sales, field reset and lots of other jobs.

Team 217 and 447 and others - for taking care of breakfast on Saturday morning and delivering the carpet.

Wildstang for the awesome Human Player game

Everyone who performed in the talent show

Jessica B for the fantastic National Anthem both mornings

Amanda M for UFH, organizing the talent show and lots of other small stuff.

Tom, Ken, Brandon, David and several others for the scoring and field work.

Jason and Matt from 234 for the video work, and Perry Meridian for loaning us the equipment

Ryan the DJ

LNHS and team 1024 for the school, sound system, power, and concession stand.

All of the FIRST people who came to see the IRI and talk with us about how we do it, and how it works!

Collin and Jason for the work with the judges, trophies and putting together the awards slide show.

Jon, the photographer.

IPD and Channel 8 for flying in to let us climb around their helicopters.

Delphi and Rolls-Royce for sponsoring Scholarships for our 2004 Seniors.

Team 45 for the electrical work for the pits

All of the students who volunteered to be tour guides

The judges who gave up a bunch of time to be there Friday and Saturday

A fantastic referee crew

Students and adults from team 234, 393 and 45 who set up the field, took it down, reset it after matches and did just about anything that was asked of them.

All of the volunteers who came in from all around the USA to help. Field reset, scoring, team queing, tour guides, pit administration, and on and on

And, all of the teams and businesses who donated backpacks. We will get a final count and get them to the school. You guys are awesome - there are about 60 backpacks for 2nd graders!

I probably forgot someone - apologies now if I did - but just to cover it -

Thanks to everyone else, too!

Chris Fultz
IRI Lead Coordinator, 2004.