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[Mack]

How a team without a corporate sponsor can win this award?

Hey, I just wanted to agree with you all and let everyone out there, especially the rookie teams, know that a corperate sponsorship is not needed at all to create a fantastic robot, or win a chairman's award. Besides team #1, my team, team 121, won the chairmans award at NYC, and won the UTC regional. Although our team is supported by Navy, their assistance is limited to experienced engineers and advice, no monatary funding whatsoever. Our team did all we could, including car washes, bake sales, dinner-dances, and the like to raise the $ to make it to the two regionals and to Nationals. It takes a lot of hard work, but any team can be successful in FIRST, and that is the best part about the program. It always looks nice to have matching team jumpsuits and expensive gadgets, but it is not needed to win. I just wanted to let everyone know that anyone can do it, so just keep on trying. Gook luck at Nationals to Everyone.