[Chris Fultz]

My name is Chris Fultz, my son Collin Fultz is an Air Force ROTC student at Purdue. His decision to join the ROTC is probably due in part to being in Cub Scouts when he was younger. His Cub Scout leader was Mr. X, a Rolls-Royce person (I wont use his real name since he is not a FIRST guy - yet, anyway). This summer, I was able to make a connection between Mr. X, and Steve Shade. Steve now works for Rolls-Royce in Annapolis, which is the home of the US NAval Academy. I had a great uncle who was in the Navy, and after WWII he decided to not return to Indiana, and instead stayed in San Diego, which is in California. I visited him and went to Disneyland when I was eight years old, which is also the same age Collin joined Cub Scouts (see above for relevance).

Ending 3: Disneyland is in California, and California is one of 48 states I visited on vacation with my parents. Team 48 is Delphi Elite, and Delphi is also the name of a big company in Kokomo, that sponsors Team 45. I had a good friend, Carolyn R, who lived in Kokomo and was a minister. Another friend who is a minister lives in Phoenix, home of the Arizona Regional. Team 234 won the Regional Chairman's award there in 2003, and they won the Regional Chairman's award in Chicago in 2004. Also in Chicago was team 71, Beatty Machine, from Hammond. Bill Beatty is a Woody Flowers Award Winner, and I was able to meet Woody Flowers at Dean's house in 2003. Also at Dean's house was team 461 from Purdue. Oneangrydwarf is from team 461, at Purdue and may be a volunteer for that regioanls. I was just in a meeting at Purdue with Carolyn Percifield who is one of the committee leaders for the Purdue Regional. Also at the meeting was Rachel Voss. I met Rachel this summer at the IRI, which I helped plan with Libby Ritchie. One thing about Libby, she said "make sure one of the IRI referees is "JVN".