'New 4-H team will compete in robotics' Article

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Haha Akash, thanks for all the PR, for the UIUC group and our new team. I've really been lacking being active on CD, it's been quite a few years since I was last very active.

It's pretty exciting how hard Lisa Diaz has been working with JCPenney and FIRST to get all these teams jump started in Illinois. We were looking to start a team anyways, and having the 4-H State office, here helped. I believe that Lisa is still trying to garner interest for a few teams in different areas.

I don't know if it's too late, but if there are some veteran teams in Illinois that might be willing to do a demo or two PM me, we can see what can happen.

The list of current ROOKIE team locations is:
Forsyth
Champaign
Springfield
Alton
Bloomington
Galesburg
Joliet

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3951 is a new rookie team (featured in Libby's Let's Talk FIRST!) that is also 4H and JCP. It's awesome to see such an outpouring of institutional support from 4H on top of the spectacular JCP sponsorship!