[Derek Bessette]

Thanks to teams 1305 and 1511. This was my first year coaching and it was easy coming up with strategies with two strong stackers like yourselves. I hope we can work together again at the championship.

Thanks to Ken Patton, JVN and Adrienne Emerson for your help on friday. It was nice to have an outsiders opinion in our strategy talks.

I also have to say I really enjoyed watching Adrienne destroy Ken, John and Karthik in the Indy 500 game at Playdium.

I would also like to congratulate team 1241 on their chairman's award and team 1305 on their second engineering inspiration award. Both well deserved.

Congratulations also to teams 1503 and 1680. You both played well this weekend. I hope we can continue to grow NiagaraFIRST.org. So that more kids can have as much fun as we did this past weekend.

I would also like to thank all people involved in AndyMark and the Nothing but Dewalts whitepaper. Without these resources we could not have been as successful as we were.

Oh and a couple more thank yous to all the students and mentors involved in our teams. I had so much fun so far this year. Thanks also to GM and Steve Rourke who gave us the resources to make this possible. I am proud to work for a company who puts so much into FIRST.