Qotw [11-17-02]: Manchester or remote kickoff...

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by Ken Leung

Get to see Dean's mansion!
Toured around the FIRST place and seeing where FIRST staff works.
Saw the robot hall of fame

It's so strange to see someone think of those as such great things. Living in a suburb of Manchester, NH, I suppose I'm lucky enough to work at FIRST Place over the summer... two floors away from where they invent the game (my first summer, I thought it was intriguing that the third floor does not have an elevator button, and is the only one with curtains. Talk about top-secret security!), and the Robot Hall of Fame is just another thing to tell the kids not to touch. Dean's mansion, though I've never been in it, to me is just the lights at the top of the hill, next to the windmill, that I drive by on my way to the mall. And the Verizon Center... well, I go there to watch minor league hockey games and concerts!

I will say, though, before FIRST, I never thought living in my small NH town was exciting... but FIRST makes me realize how lucky I am to live here, and how many experiences I've had that most FIRSTers can only dream of.


That said, I'll definitely vote for the Manchester kickoff, but I don't know a whole lot about remote kickoffs in the first place.