[Dan Zollman]

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I sent this email to my team/club both as a joke and as a satire on the style of the kind of emails I send to the club:

From: Daniel Zollman
To: Lower Merion High School Technology and Engineering Club
Subject: Tech & Eng Club: new announcements


Hey club,

I'm proud to announce that our FIRST Robotics Competition team attended the Philadelphia FIRST Regional competition at Drexel University from Thursday to Saturday. The team finished in 4th seed and made it to the quarter-finals in the competition, was awarded the General Motors Industrial Design Award, which "celebrates form and function in an efficiently designed machine that effectively achieves the game challenge," and was awarded an unofficial award sponsored by team 272 (Lansdale Catholic Cyber-Crusaders), the Best Robot at the Competition Award.

Team 1712, having qualified for the worldwide FIRST Championship Event last year in FRC, and in FIRST Vex Challenge this year, will travel to Atlanta for the Championship Event at the Georgia Dome from April 12-14. The event will be webcast by NASA (you can watch it on your computer with most regular media/video players) here: http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/first.php

(A side note: my email may not have been working on Thursday and Friday, so if you sent me an email, I might not have received it.)

This success in FRC represents both growth in the team since its rookie year (2006), and growth in the Technology and Engineering Club. Since the club's first school year in 2002-2003 with 10 members, the club has grown to almost 80 members and competed in tens of competitions locally and nationally. We now participate in four different programs: TSA, F1, FVC, and FRC. The club itself is growing within the school and community.

After we've grown to this size and had remarkable success in TSA, FRC, and FVC, some may ask, "What's next?" Next year, we will continue to participate in those four competitions, but I understand that we will continue to increase in membership, become better on all fronts, and take on new challenges.

That's why I am proud to announce the club's next goal. After the state competition, we will get ready for the national TSA conference, but our activities in F1, FVC, and FRC will be finished for the year. We'll have the length of May and part of June to begin a new project. The new club officers will continue working during the summer to make this goal a reality, and we will be able to smoothly run a fifth team for the next school year.

I won't hesitate any longer to announce the Technology and Engineering Club's goal for the 2007-2008 school year:

The club will take over and absorb Lower Merion's Science Olympiad team. We will then have full control of activities in the schools Science and Technology Education departments, and leadership of those departments in the entire district. (Although this does not account for the whole of the "Industrial Arts" deparment, the officers have concluded that Art Forum is a low priority).

Please KEEP CHECKING YOUR EMAIL for more announcements and to find out how you can help.

Thanks,
Dan

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Daniel Zollman
Email: z@dawgma.org
Phone: 610-731-1180

President
Technology and Engineering Club
Technology Student Association chapter
FIRST Robotics Competition and FIRST Vex Challenge teams - Dawgma 1712
Lower Merion High School
Ardmore, PA