[RoboMom]

A tremendous thank you for the incredible volunteer effort at the Rockwell Automation Fair this week. The teams and mentors did a great job of representing FIRST. All the students will be receiving a letter from the CEO of Rockwell for their portfolio.

Rockwell Automation and thousands of attendees were impressed, and there is a flood of interest in FIRST, ranging from colleges to trade magazines to vendors donations to potential sponsors to potential teams, worldwide. Rockwell will be holding this event in Chicago next year and have already said they are interested in including FIRST.

FIRST is all about problem solving, and the teams on Thursday had to cope with massive traffic and load out challenges due to exploding manhole covers. I hope that getting the robots home was not too difficult.

I hope you all had fun. You made me proud to be a part of this organization.

There were dozens of official photos taken. John Abele and Bruce Linton attended on Thursday, as well as Keith Nosbusch, Chairman and CEO of Rockwell. I'll try to post a couple when I get them from Rockwell Automation.
Go Teams!