Pacific Northwest Regional

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As for the HECo/McKinley team, we traveled to Seattle after the Silicon Valley Regional. We decided to go to the Seattle regional to show the students a different state. We went to the Southern California Regional last year. Although we qualified for the Nationals, we are not going because it will be too expensive to travel to Texas from Hawaii. We try to make the best of our initial air fare leveraging another regional before we return.

If we were a rookie team, I would love to see how we fair against other more experienced teams. Also, I know that we have learned much from them. The competition forces everyone to innovate and everyone gains at the end.

I am also interested in seeing pictures/videos of the matches. Being from Hawaii always creates logistical problems with travel. This year we have 6 teams from Hawaii. Hopefully, we will have a regional of our own someday. This will definitely save us money. I would think that FIRST teams would not mind visiting the islands.