[Josh Adkins]

Team 3138 would also like to send a thanks out to our alliance partners at IRI. Thanks to 1086 for picking us; we were sitting on the edge of our seats during those last few picks and it was a huge relief to know we would get to compete in elimination rounds. But a special thanks has to go out to both 2056 and 1114. Starting with 2056, our season wouldn't be complete with out them. We truly couldn't have had a better rookie year and a large part of that is thanks to the great experiences we had playing with 2056 and 1625 throughout eliminations in Atlanta, specifically on eistien. We learned a lot about how to conduct ourselves as a team and how to strategize, two very valuable skills in FIRST. Although we didn't get to know 1114 as well as we did 2056, we have been impressed with both their team dynamics and the engineering of their robot since pittsburgh, and we would not have been as prepared or proffessional at IRI without the experience of competing at pittsburgh with 1114 or watching them on eistien.

Many other teams have also helped us throughout our rookie year. It would be nearly impossible to thank all of them, but our success has to also be attributed to the help of mentor teams 48,1038 and also 379 who allowed us to use their robot as a pre-rookie team at IRI 2009.

As a side note, 3138 would like to follow the rest of FRC in congragulating 469 on their success and amazing design. Our goals for next year include striving to think outside of the box and create an efficient and effective design just as 469 did this year.