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Re: The Alumni Situation - My Expirence
Posted by Justin.

Other on team Blue Lightning Alumni Association from RWU sponsored by FIRST-A-holics Anonymous.

Posted on 10/2/2000 3:41 PM MST


In Reply to: The Alumni Situation posted by Erin on 10/1/2000 9:52 PM MST:



Hello,

I am an alumni of Team Blue Lightning, or Team 146. I am currently a sophomore at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. This is about a two hour drive south of Manchester where the team is based. My freshman year here at school I did not have a car. However my winter break is quite long and I was able to help at Kick-off and work with the team during thier intial brain storms. I also returned home to help the team ship the robot as it was a long weekend for me. I had very good long standing realtionships with the engineers on the team and was welcomed back very easily. While I didn't go to the regionals with the team persay I did go up and route them on as we came in 2nd at the 2000 New England Regionals.

I had as much fun as I have any other FIRST season and many on the team expressed thier appreciation for my help, an in fact I have a silver medal from that 2nd place finish.

It is different and I have considered contacting the Middletown, RI team...but have not done so because I have found there is that certian bond to my old team and the Manchester Teams in general (CHAOS ;-) This year I am planning on participating in many of the same ways as I always have and suspect that I will be even more valuable as we transition from an old sponsor to a new one.

I think one of the things missed most was being able to travel to the Nationals. I made a lot of new FIRST friends and it would have been to hang with them all at nationals. This year I am planning on going to the NE Regionals out in Hartford and also to the Philly Regionals.

So that's my experience,

-Justin
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