On behalf of all the St. Louis area teams that attended, particularly FRC 931 (
my team
who provided their workspace as a venue), I want to thank FRC 16 The Bomb Squad. They came all the way from Mountain Home, Arkansas, to spend a full day with us presenting their overview of the new system, and the features / issues they identified while testing it on their 2008 practice robot. The presentation, demonstrations, and informal discussions shared by over 50 participants should go a long way toward developing our area teams' confidence in the new system as we prepare for the 2009 season.
The Bomb Squad's workshop today was thorough, professional, and most of all extremely helpful. Exactly the kind of high-class performance that they've been known for at dozens of FIRST events since 1996.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)