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Posted by Nate Smith.

Other on team #66, GM Powertrain/Willow Run HS, from Eastern Michigan University and GM Powertrain.

Posted on 4/3/2000 9:47 PM MST


In Reply to: Nate- EVEN BETTER than Santa's Little Helper posted by Erin on 4/3/2000 7:53 PM MST:



: 'Nate.' He is the key to all information. He has went out of his way to design a database (GMCIA) that will hold all assessment information and he is trying to get as many teams as possible linked up to it (and working very hard, i might add). I know that this gracious deed has not gone unrecognized on team one, and I hope that no one else overlooks it... they will be missing something great.

Thanks for the comments Erin...I have been working quite a bit on this project the past couple of weeks, and just about everything seems to be falling into place nicely. I'm not sure what it is about this year, but I seem to be 'into' the competition a lot more than I have in the past....because of that, I've put a lot of effort into projects that I've released into the FIRST community...the dashboard, the GMCIA, and all the little comments that I've thrown in here and there...and from the comments that I've recieved back, the help that I have been able to give has been well recieved. I also appreciate the help that others have given as I have run across problems that I needed help to solve.

I went into a school's team that knew little to nothing about me other than what team I was coming from, and was quickly adopted in as a member of the group. On two separate occasions with two different teams, I was welcomed to a team meeting of another team, helping me to get a feel for how things were run on teams outside of my own. Upon arriving at the regional competitions, the people who I had talked back and forth with so much, quite often on this forum, worked to track me down, allowing me to put faces with the names that I had seen so often here, a job that I can only remember a couple people undertaking last year...

In short, even though I'm not a high school student in this program any more, I still think that this has been the best year that I've been with FIRST...I can't definitely say it's something with the new team, as I have some great memories from my old team as well...maybe it's just something in the Ypsilanti air, but whatever it is, has made this year the best that I've had yet...

Nate