[AndyH]

As I was talking to our administration today, I realized that they really don't have any idea how important and hard-earned the FIRST awards can be. (They just don't have a context for what the Chairman's Award, Woodie Flowers, GP, etc... mean.)

I'm not sure about other schools, but our principal reads any positive notes he gets from parents, etc, to the entire staff at the faculty meetings.

I was thinking that maybe we could work on our own homework - getting the word out to our schools to give FIRST teams the recognition they deserve!

Here's my proposal -

If teams that win awards think it would benefit their cause to have other teams write thank you notes or congratulatory comments to their administration, just post the contact information here. Anyone who has time could take a few minutes to write that note and put it in the mail. I'd like to start by getting the word out to administration of teams that won in St. Louis. That way I can talk about my experiences working with the teams. Other teams could write letters for their regionals. I hope that we can help educate the schools about what the kids are doing and how hard they are working!!

Anyone???