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Re: How many FIRST teams may be affected by the proposed military base closings?
TACOM TARDEC (US Tank Automotive Reseach and Development Center), located here in southeast Michigan, was on a list a few months ago concerning proposed base closures. Team 1213, one of the teams that 573 has worked with plenty in the past, is sponsored by TARDEC.
Searching around the internet and having talked to some of the robotics people, I found out that one of Michigan's senators, Ms. Debbie Stabenow, was present at GLR to see what progress the base has made with FIRST and to enjoy the competition.
Last thing I heard was that she was very impressed with what was taking place at the competition. I haven't seen any more reports of TARDEC's possible closing - so perhaps even FIRST helped take it off the proposed list? That would be very awesome indeed...
http://michigan.craintech.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?articleId=4200&print=yes
http://www.tacom.army.mil/main/news/3-29-05.html
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