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Originally Posted by Yan Wang

Yay! Only 14 more months before I can take this course

So how's MIT FIRST?

MIT FIRST is taking a finals break at the moment.

We're hopefully picking up another high school next year, James D. O'Bryant, so we will have a school from the North (Chelsea), East (Boston), South (Westwood), and West (Cambridge) of MIT. Plans for exactly what regionals we are attending have not been layed out yet.

I have some big long-term ideas that I am looking into, specifically getting a field built on campus and hosting an off-season event combined with an MIT robotics/technology expo of some sort. All of this is still just a crazy idea and I need to run it by a million people before I'll even know if it's possible, but I really think that MIT should be a FIRST hub and I think there are enough important people here who would support the idea. I'm going to email some people before I leave for the summer and then we'll put together a serious proposal for all this over the summer to present in the fall. I'd like to see it happen before the 2007 FIRST season. We'll see.

Must survive finals week first!

EDIT: So much for that break. Team 97 will hopefully be making an appearance at 2.007 tonight (at very least, I will be there), and we may even be on the webcast briefly. I did a lot of really-late-notice emailing, so I don't know just how many people are going to show...but we'll see.