[Don]

Our team won the national Kleiner-Perkins Caufield (and Byers I think) Award, so you might be interested in our story. As the manual says you have to show an aspect of buisness and your team. Well the aspect that our team showed was teamwork. We did this through sprouting other teams. Everyone here is probably thinking, hey we start new teams, how come we didn't get the award. Well what we did was mentor (thats mentor, not just start) at least one new team each year besides our rookie year. We started one lego league team and have a plan to start a lego league team in all the elementary schools in our school district this year(I believe that is around 12 schools). The clincher was that last year we voluntarily gave up our primary sponsor (of both money and facility) Delphi to one of the local area schools so that they could get started. Everyone always rolls their eyes when we say this and think that its a hoax of some sort. Well, we didn't have any backup sponsors lined up after them and we definately had a decline in competitive performance this year because of this.

As you can see I am very proud of all the teams that we have started (especially the Delphi Demons) and the award that we have received. I hope this helps you.