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Re: pic: Team 357's 2006 MIT InvenTeam

I was there for your demo with John Burns, my teacher counterpart on Rosie and my son, Kyle, (Rosie founder and the team's Dir of Eng back then) and I want to congratulate you folks publically. You all did a fine job, not only with the wheel chair, that was the easy part, but with the presentation portion of the event. It was brutally evident which teams were prepared and who was not. I have to think being a FIRST team put you ahead of the curve in engineering and presentation.

The reasons I love the Lemelson InvenTeam program so much to keep coming back is that one of the main problems engineers are faced with is communications. Typically, we are nerds that would rather be in the lab than on stage in front of an audience of people. This process of having to do a formal presentation forces the students to get on stage, see what it's like, get very valuable experience public speaking. You can have the best engineered product in the universe, but if you cannot communicate your ideas, then the investors will go elswhere with their capital. The whole process of Lemelson/MIT InvenTeams is to innovate, invent and communicate.

We were an InvenTeam in 2004 (Pothole detection and repair) and "raised the bar" back then. You folks bumped it up another notch by "aiming high."
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