[Gboehm]

To me there were 2 high points to the weekend. The first one was the first match of the quarter-finals, where we scored 40 points in autonomous and manage to beat the first ranked alliance, they went on to win the next two, but we made em work for it!

The seconed high point was 2390, a little backround to the story first. In my school district a new high school was created, for expansion and such. The former 1458 (Monte Vista, who is also in our district) mentor went over to Doherty Valley (2390) to start a robotics program. But this new high school is only freshmen and sophomores. With help from us and 1458 they made the "little box on wheels" (my favorite design!). We helped them program and get their autonomous going, and I helped them when a PWM cable caught fire patched it up. They ran tough and ranked 15th, but were not selected for the finals, but since they were the highest ranked non chosen. they were stuck in the back up spot for the finals. While 1516 and 1458 were watching the final matches we saw 2390 get qued up to go in and play in the finals. So Monte Vista (1458) and California High (1516) went down to cheer as hard as we could. and even though they didnt win, to see how nervous and how much fun they were having even when they lost almost brought a tear to my eye.

Yea... I enjoyed my first year as a mentor...