To our friends in Israel

[Rich Kressly]

In reading separate threads, it seems that website, AVA entries, and Inventor entries will not be judged at the Israeli Regional. For all of you who have worked so hard this is disappointing news this late in the season, however it does NOT mean your work has to go unrecognized.

By all means finish the work that all of you started. Post your work on the web for all of us to see and be inspired. Let us know when your work is there, the FIRST community would love to see it! I'm only guessing that the lack of judges is part of your situation. It's possible the first year of a new regional in a new country, this is just something that there weren't enough time and resources to address properly. Whetever the reasons, have faith that FIRST and Israel will work this out for future years. In the mean time see if completed animations / screen shots can be shown at your regional. If the capabilities are at your venue, maybe this is a possibility.

Congratulations on all of your hard work. Maybe the community on CD can arrange an unofficial competition from a distance. We could use the actual manual scoring criteria and rules. If there is enough interest among the Israeli teams, I'd be willing to be a judge. Would anyone else out there like to help?