Sippin' on the haterade

[martin417]

Reading over this thread, I realized that I may have given the wrong impression of the Peachtree Regional. While we did receive some bad attitude, we ALL had a blast, and I know many people, both young and old were inspired. I loved it when some of the freshmen parents came up to me and said that they had no idea how cool and how much fun this was. I know that many left with a new appreciation for engineering and science in general, and FIRST robotics in particular. Most of the people with whom I spoke were very supportive, and I enjoyed every conversation I had (I talked with a lot of people). In my opinion, the best compliment our team received was not on the quality of our robot, it had nothing to do with how well our drivers drove. It was posted here on Chief delphi by Sunny Gupta, a mentor from 1261 (1261 is from Peachtree Ridge high school, in the same small town as North Gwinnett). Here is an excerpt from that post:

@ 1771 - Probably one of the most professional teams I've ever met. Usually teams pass around the blame but you'll never hear a bad word from 1771. Honestly, they ran an excellent event and were SOL when it came down to crunch time. Hopefully you guys can get enough funds to get to N.C and join 2415 and hopefully us at worlds.