[Liz Smith]

Everyone is so excited to go on this trip. Since word has gotten out at our school that we're going all the way to Brazil, a lot of people have come up to me asking me questions about robotics. People who were pretty uninterested in the team before are now asking me what this "robotics thing" is all about. After telling them that we're not making human-like robot clones of ourselves... they seem pretty interested in what we do. Even in a Board of Ed. meeting in our town that the team was invited to attend, when the people there heard we were going to Brazil, they were impressed. This has been a great way for us to attract peoples attention and get them to see a little about how great robotics and FIRST really is.