[Al Skierkiewicz]

My list is so long I can't give everyone the credit they deserve. However, any team that is actively working towards Chairman's is inspiring to me. They have a goal and are working towards that goal no matter how distant it may seem. They realize that FRC is not just about building robots. It is about inspiring youth, and doing whatever it takes to make a great experience for those students that they are working with today and those that may be touched by them in the future. They show me that it is possible to have a First team and that they can get students engaged and thinking and excited about science and technology. The one thing I have learned in the last fourteen years is that a happy student is one who will go places and do things. The size of the team, the greatness of their victories or the design of the robot means little in the scheme of things. Excited, happy, thinking students are the yardstick by which I measure teams.