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Re: FIRST Team Receives Prestigious Lemelson-MIT Grant

Thanks everyone,

Our team is very excited about being part of a project that can benefit the poorest in the world. Over a billion people in the world live on less than $1 per day. We decided to help these people by inventing a simple machine for the threshing of Sorghum and Millet in Sub-Suharan Africa. Currently they us a very ancient technology (mortar and pestle). Whereas in the USA, we use big farm machines, they do all of their harvesting by hand. So far, it has been a fantastic experience. It has been difficult for the past couple of weeks keeping up with the InvenTeam project while doing our FRC robot design. But we are excited to put our robotic talents to work for others. We are going to MIT in June to present our results!

To bad this year's game did not involve threshing sorghum!
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