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"Team 870 and Team 102 would like to ask team 2458 to be in thier alliance"
"Team 2458 graciously accepts"

First time in history team 2458 has been picked to advance and it summed up this year. New faculty advoisors, 3/4 of the team being freshmen, and only 1 programmer this year for mentors it has been a challenging year. Asking the new faculty advisors (who were very critical at the beginning of the year) what their favorite part of the competition was, their answer was that line above. And for me that moment made the past two years that were filled with pain and frustration all worth it.

Thank you to team 2458 for an amazing year especially Mr. Grabwoski and Mr. Taeschler for believing in me that this is possible at our school. And I know next year will be even better!