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Team 1124 is in the process of creating a Connecticut Robotics Alliance, made up of all the FIRST Robotics teams in Connecticut. We want to use this as a way to collectively get media attention about robotics in our state, which also will help all of us with Dean's homework for 2008. In addition to getting major media coverage of the Connecticut Regional, and spotlights in the news on Connecticut teams, we are hoping to get the state of Connecticut to make a "Connecticut Celebrates Robotics Day" (or something along those lines, with a different name). We are planning to make a website for the Connecticut Robotics Alliance, with links to the websites of all the participating teams (with permission), and statistics like the number of students involved, the number of mentors involved, the collective number of years of experience, all the sponsors across the state, etc., so that we can show how widespread and how important FIRST Robotics is, and why it deserves the attention and respect we want it to gain in our state. We are going to send information to teams within the next week, but in the meantime, does anyone have any comments or suggestions for us? Connecticut, do you think we can do it?