I'd like to thank the students and mentors from the 19 teams who attended ConnVex yesterday at the University of Hartford, and the 50+ volunteers who helped staff it - you were all so awesome! I had a good time and hope you all did, too (thanks Steve for playing the Cha Cha Slide just for me!)... Tom Bottiglieri did a great job as emcee and probably has no voice left today
... A big thanks to our planning committee - Mike Betts, Technical Field Advisor; Paige Rasid, Media/VIP/PR Manager; Kori Kentfield, Volunteer Coordinator; Art Dutra III, Scorekeeper; Art Dutra IV, Webmaster; Joe Mazzone and Greg Caswell from New England FIRST; Ann Lankford from Univ. of Hartford and Brad Lauer, Regional Director. Thanks go out to Dave Goric, Head Referee and his crew; and to Bill Pease, Judge Advisor, and his crew. A special thanks to Mike Sperber for keeping me sane yesterday and reminding me to take the time to enjoy the moment. Thanks to all the FRC teams who stepped up to help at the last minute - 173, 177, 228 and 839. Among the mentors and volunteers at ConnVex we had a Regional Director, two FIRST Senior Mentors, five FIRST AmeriCorps VISTA Volunteers, and faculty, staff and students representing over 10 colleges and universities, all giving up their precious time on a very busy Saturday in December!
T H A N K Y O U ! ! !