pic: The President meets MOE

[dlavery]

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Wow. That's really awesome! I'm assuming that the Secret Service went nuts and inspected the bot before hand, and had someone posted right behind the driver at all times?

That's really cool!

[whytheheckme]

This is a GREAT shot!!!

Is a story on this running anywhere tomorrow?

Jacob

[Travis Hoffman]

Ahem......"where are the President's safety glasses???"

Yeah, someone was going to say it eventually.

This is a really cool pic. Digging the Prez's tie, too.

[dlavery]

There are a few others that I will post when thye get cleared. Several members of the official White House press corps were also in attendance, and are starting to post their own photos. Some of the more interesting ones from Reuters can be seen here. Although the best one so far is here on Getty Images (we can't post these directly on CD, since they are copyrighted, but we can link to them). The President's expression is priceless, as Moe-zilla was approaching rather quickly at the time, and had just missed clipping a VERY EXPENSIVE crystal chandelier by about 1/2" during the approach.

-dave

[chaoticprout]

Epic and awesome. Great job MOE

[Cooley744]

WOW. Now if we could get the president to show up at nationals...that would be AMAZING!

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by Cooley744

WOW. Now if we could get the president to show up at nationals...that would be AMAZING!

champs....


But yes, that would rock SO HARD!!! Imagine the press... and the expansion of FIRST!

Jacob

[fredliu168]

WOW meeting president bush!

this is so inspiring me to work hard to win the VEX inspire award next year!

[ChuckDickerson]

President Bush's face is priceless in that Getty image! I can so see that face dancing in the next Jib-Jab cartoon! Kudos to whoever was driving MOE-zilla at the time. You made my day!

[Gabe]

Dear Mr. President:

You might have met some good friends of ours, MOE of FIRST Robotics. See, these people won the most prestigious award for our competition, the National Chairman's Award. It is given to the best team there is, in character and spirit, as well as smarts.

You also might have met a little guy dressed in a blue, Dean Kamen. He's the man that started this competition back in 1992, and fifteen years later is grown a lot. I mean "1,300+ schools" kind of a lot. He's a really smart guy, and really wants his idea to grow even more. All it takes is $5,000 per high school and the program will pay for itself in a year.

How? Well, after the one year the program can guarantee the inspiration of minimum 1 student who will go into science and technology. This 1 student will then go on to input a minimum of $5,000 during his career into the economy, guaranteed.

We need you help, Mr. President, to continue to bring up teams like MOE.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Cooley744

WOW. Now if we could get the president to show up at nationals...that would be AMAZING!

Let's see how long this lasts.
If we could get the president to show up and do his job. Now that would be AMAZING!

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Originally Posted by dlavery

There are a few others that I will post when thye get cleared. Several members of the official White House press corps were also in attendance, and are starting to post their own photos. Some of the more interesting ones from Reuters can be seen here. Although the best one so far is here on Getty Images (we can't post these directly on CD, since they are copyrighted, but we can link to them). The President's expression is priceless, as Moe-zilla was approaching rather quickly at the time, and had just missed clipping a VERY EXPENSIVE crystal chandelier by about 1/2" during the approach.

-dave

I have a feeling the faces that President Bush made in some of those photos may end up on Leno or other late night tv shows...

[Alpha 997]

Originally Posted by Budda648

I have a feeling the faces that President Bush made in some of those photos may end up on Leno or other late night tv shows...

It'll be on The Daily Show alright.

[Zyik]

This makes me like the president more for some reason.