[Sean Schuff]

Wow!! Great event!!

Kudos to Mark Lawrence and the entire cast and crew of the Minnesota Regional. Your planning, preparation, enthusiasm and dedication paid off in a fantastic inaugural event. We are already looking forward to 2009!

Congrats to the Green Machine on the Regional Chairman's award. We knew you would be tough competition and we're happy for your long list of accomplishments in such a short period of time. Best of luck on the national stage!!

A HUGE thank you to team 525 and team 2518 for a phenomenal ride through the eliminations. 525 is an amazing team that went 15-0 for the entire event. WOW!! And to top it all off Bruce Newendorp went home with the regional WFA award! And 2518 is a rookie team with all the skill and poise of a seasoned veteran. We made a great team and we're proud to have been a part of it.

Thank you King TeC for all the support at both the Wisconsin Regional and the Minnesota Regional. It would have been great to have played with you again in the eliminations but it just didn't work out that way. We hope we get another crack at it in Atlanta!

Thanks to all the teams for giving us the opportunity to come in and help! It is always such a rewarding experience for everyone on the NEW Apple Corps to help the new teams and give them an idea of how cool/fun/inspiring robotics can be. Although we won a few trophies at the event, everyone on the bus on the way home was talking about how cool it was to be able to help all the other teams at the event. It is those experiences that they will take with them for the rest of their lives and we hope the rookie teams at the event will pay it forward.

Last but certainly not least it is always good to see old friends at these events - Al, Dottie, Laurie, Ricky, Tyler, Dan, Ted, the whole Fondy Fire crew - I'm sure I'm missing someone. It's the people that make these events so much fun! Thanks for all you do!

See you all in Atlanta!

Sean