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Re: 2009 Long Island Regional
Team 806 hadn't been to Long Island since 2005, but my whole team unanimously agreed after this weekend that we should come back much more often! I join many others in commending the field crew for facilitating 11 qualifying matches for everyone. The robot inspectors were pleasingly thorough, which made my kids feel more accountable for their work and glad that they followed the rules, and I even learned something new about the pneumatics layout from Pat Foley.
All weekend, my team greatly enjoyed the atmosphere in the pits and the friendliness of the "home teams." We didn't feel like outsiders or even in the minority even once. I also consider this our best performance in the 8 year history of our team. It made my weekend to see our driver as happy as he was when the judges removed the penalty in Quarterfinal 4-2 to force a 3rd match. When we went on to lose QF 4-3 by one point, I couldn't have been prouder of the smiles and gracious professionalism that my team maintained. Finally, thanks to 2161 and 270 for being great partners and easy to work with.
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"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." -- Mother Teresa
"You give yourself to us, O Lord, then selfless let us be, to serve each other in Your name, in truth and charity." -- Robert E. Kreutz, You Satisfy the Hungry Heart
"You have the right to work, but for the work's sake only. You have no rights to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either...Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender...They who work selfishly for results are miserable." -- from the Bhagavad Gita, quoted in Educating Esmé
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