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New Jersey's 12th Congressional District (which includes Trenton, home to the NJ Regional) is represented by Rush Holt, former Assisstant Director at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Holt, who lives in Hopewell Township (also home to team 293) spends a lot of time in the district and in fact just today attended a local town hall meeting. Holt is also a member of the House Education and Workforce Committee and he convened the first "Einstein's Alley" conference with the goal of strengthening central NJ as a hotbed of science, technology and innovation in the 21st century. He would no doubt be more than willing to speak at a FIRST regional.

As I have mentioned earlier on these forums, it behooves winners of regional championships and chairmans awards to write their legislators (state or federal). Your legislator might congratulate your team on the floor of the state legislature or even the US House.