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Re: Green Machine Competition!

We're in. Our mentor actually said something about one of our graduates from way back when being involved with FirstFuelCell, but I don't know how true that is.
This same mentor was about to assign the project to three sophomores until we told our physics teacher and he had a heart attack. Now there's a more experienced team on it. (Read as "kids who have actually taken chem.")
I haven't read up much on the competition because it's out of my department, but I'm interested to see what comes out of this. It takes FIRST back to its early days. In recent years, robots have become more and more commonplace, which makes FIRST less and less avant garde. We're still inspiring future scientists, but the wow factor is starting to diminish now that clean, pretty commercial robots are hitting shelves. Fuel cells are on the cutting edge, which is right where FIRST should be in my opinion.
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