[16MentalTempest]

Wendymom, that is the most amazing piece of writing I've seen on this website. It is no surprise to me that the biggest award a team can receive is NOT for winning the competition, but for inspiring others to see science and technology as a fun, exciting, and rewarding field to go into. More than anything, this is the impact that FIRST will have on my life. What we, as a collective community should do, is let everyone in the country, heck even the world, know what we are about and why it is so important to us. We've already gotten a darn good start on it, as far as I know, but like that old saying goes, "It can always be better." And while we can try our hardest, just like in real life, our hard work may not always be acknowledged, but trust me, I'm sure FIRST has been taken note of.

This is by far the best thing I've heard anyone say in my life: "All this we can do. And all this we will do."