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Re: 2005 Lonestar Regional Awards, Congratulations all teams!

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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
The third team this season that has experience both a regional championship and a regional Chairman's award.
So I have to ask: Which feels better?
To keep with this year's theme, thanks for throwing a hanging curve ball, Ed; the Chairman's Awards feels so much better ... orders of magnitude for myself. I believe that our entire team would agree with my sentiment but probably at different levels as Mason has demonstrated. Trust me, this is not because we routinely win the Lone Star Regional ... as a matter of fact, we have never won the Lone Star Regional until yesterday. Our students work so hard throughout the year supporting engineering education (EARLY; FLL; BEST; Botball; FRC; ...) that it is wonderful to have them recognized with the Chairman's. Actually, our team members are selected in December by their commitment to engineering education and not based on anything else. As a result, we get a wonderful group of students.

What should never go unsaid about Chairman's in the Lone Star Region is that our teams are closely integrated when it comes to engineering outreach. We sincerely feel that we are representing many teams from the Lone Star Region when it comes time to compete for the Chairman's at Championships. For example, all year we work with team 57, side by side, to host many of the robotics competitions we have in Houston. 57 does all of the legwork for the BEST tournament and our students work side-by-side with 57 students on kickoff and competition day ... the roles are then reversed for FLL. We also work together with 57 for the Houston Robotics Sponsorships (www.HoustonRobotics.org) which provided Sponsorships from Brazil to Oklahoma. The list of partnerships just go on-and-on with great partnerships amongst the Mississippi teams, Ponca City, San Antonio teams, Houston teams, ... I'll spare you the rest of the list. I've always wondered what the judges think when we (and probably all of the other teams) are constantly talking about how great the other teams in our region are when it comes to outreach.

We are very humbled & honored that we have been given the opportunity to represent so many great teams from the Lone Star Region at the Championships ... I hope we make them proud.

Ed, thanks for keeping Chairman's at the forefront of our discussions,
Lucien