[LSevcik]

Hi All,

As the Lone Star Regional Director, I will comment on the cause and effect of a team's creativity. I take my job as a Regional Director very seriously. One of the things, I love about FIRST is the opportunity of interacting with lots of great people. The students, mentors, volunteers and great sponsors. My committee and I work hard all year long to make the Lone Star Regional a great experience for all teams attending. We have a spare parts booth for teams that includes screws, nuts, bolts etc. FIRST provides motors etc the regional committee provides the extras. All of our teams are valued and treated as if they were our own. The Houston committee and our volunteers takes team customer service to the next level.

With that said, you ask what harm does this teenage creativity cause. The reputation of our regional. Yes, I did hear about this from the Reliant venue folks. What someone may view as creativity is viewed by others in another way. This facility doesn't belong to FIRST or the Lone Star Committee. This youthful creativity will be brought up when we need this facility for next year's regional. So if you are a student or a mentor on a team, please think is this something that would make your grandmother proud.

Team 647 is a wonderful team and has some great mentors and I know that all of them want to make their grandmothers proud.