If there is anyone here who is helping to arrange the seattle regional, you should also look into inviting Bill Nye the Science Guy as an announcer or something... He lives in Seattle or Seattle area, and is really interested in this type of stuff. He is a visiting professor at Cornell (Mech E grad '77
) and I had the opportunity to ask him if he'd heard of FIRST. He hadn't, and I told him about the Seattle regional and how he should check it out. So someone out there should track him down and send him an invitation. It'd be great to have him as a supporter of FIRST too.
Patrick