Congrats on making championships, 999! (ie, a rambling of our beginnings)

[MooreteP]

I have known your team since it's inception.

You used to be called C.R.A.S.H., which given your description, was prescient.

You won the Rookie All-Star award in 2002 at the New England Regional in New Haven. That building is now gone.
You also won the Autodesk Visualization Award in 2006. That's gone too.
Since then, nothing..... Until 2014.
Also, having the company that was started by the man who pretty much invented the modern helicopter as your major sponsor, that name, well, unfortunate.

Enter the MechaRams. Last year you were Quarter Finalists in Hartford and won your first competition in your history at Southington.
This year, 999 was 3rd ranked at Waterbury, 6th in Hartford, and on the 5th Alliance at the District Champs.

What a difference 10 years makes.
Congratulations on your evolution and rising from the ashes.
Whoever stoked the fire deserves a cookie.

Your story is the most common and least celebrated in FIRST.