Thanks for sharing and giving us a place to put things into perspective.
Our team did great on the field, but that's probably not what I'll remember most fondly about 2007 championships:
Seeing our neighboring rookies 2154 from Hopkins reachng #2 seed and ending #5. Going over to Curie with some of our team to cheer for them was awesome.
A great team dinner. Lots of laughs, good food, and peach cobbler. I was the only mentor at the kid's table. It's a good thing some of the students are fairly grown up.
Meeting lots of people at the webhug and elsewhere.
How excited 107 was to be in our alliance. How excited our team was to have 107 in our alliance. Having 386 in our alliance to add all that energy.
How excited our students got over so many things and seeing them do so well at talking about our robot and team. Their efforts in the pits and on the Scouting team were awesome.
Visiting with so many of those other FIRST people I've come to know over these nine years.
Actually finding time to go to some of the conference presentations and the mentor forum.
And many other moments in what was an incredible experience. It's amazing that inspiring students, changing culture, and celebrating the important stuff can be so rewarding and fun. Let's do it all again next year! Well actually there's Kettering Kickoff... Possibly even IRI... Maybe some demos before school gets out... Does it ever really end?
