[Al Skierkiewicz]

There is a real equation to success that includes various amounts of returning students, retuning mentors, dedicated teachers, a certain size team and a drive to do the best you can. For Wildstang one of the original Lead teachers, the original Lead mechanical, long time mentor Lead, co-electrical Lead and a team mom are all still with the team. We currently have six mentors that have been here all 15 years. We have four engineering mentors who were students and three who were on another team in high school. We have all but one engineering mentor that have been with the team more than seven years. We have active participation from nearly sixty students in four schools of seven in the district. We have incredible support from not only the administration but from the school board many of whom attend team events and the Midwest Regional. We have support from the local governments in the towns where our schools are located. We have regular press coverage of our successes and we perform fundraising, community awareness and volunteer work that makes people recognize us. (it helps to have tie dye shirts) We freely copy ideas that work for other teams and we regularly accept ideas from our students. And like our video from 2006, we feel we are "never done".