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Posted by Kyle Fenton at 04/10/2001 7:52 AM EST


Student on team #121, Islanders, from Middletown High School and NUWC.


In Reply to: oh and another thing...
Posted by Erin on 04/09/2001 11:38 PM EST:



Erin,
I totally agree with you 100%, you deserved that
award. And I am totally sorry I forgot you numbers,
we weren't in the best of spirits by the time we hit
the award ceremony. Because one of our
engineers, Walt Kosiniski , and one of the parents
to one of the students died one and a half days
before we went to nationals. Walt Kosiniski was
also a very good friend of all of our team and we
knew him for a long time. So that is why we weren't
up to our full potential. There were other reasons
but that was the most impact.
I mean all and all even if you have done a
Chairman's award, I think that FIRST respects you
a lot more if you do one, even it just a simple
written report.
I mean, Pontiac is a great city to spread the FIRST
message and sees if it trying to turn it around. Like
the massive expansion of all the rookie teams I
saw at the NY regionals.
Well unfortunately in Middletown Rhode Island, it is
a little harder to spread the FIRST impact because
one, we are the only team in our state and two, it is
not that technical savvy. To put in terms, we are in a
farm/suburban town that doesn't have a lot of
people. However we do our fair share of going to
Business Expos, and putting on Dog and Pony
shows. And we have gotten a lot of positive
feedback because of it.
But anyways the reason why I wrote that last post
was not to put-down or saying they should not
deserve it, just I hope that every team can have an
equal opportunity based on what they have
available to them.

PS
Rhode Warrior also will like to also thank you for
our highest scoring round, and the award you gave
us.