Woodie Flowers in his Younger Days

[mzitz2k]

Hi everyone,

I'm an alum of Team 302 and have nearly completed my first year here at MIT (wish me luck on my exams - I'll need it!). I came upon a link today that I thought all of you FIRSTers would enjoy:

http://web.mit.edu/smcs/inaugural/mi...y2005-220k.asx

And, here is the web site that I got the video from (see the May 5th section):
http://web.mit.edu/inauguration/highlights.html

This video actually has a clip of Woodie Flowers in his younger days!

Some background information on the video: I'm not sure if you all know, but Woodie helped begin an incredible class here at MIT called 2.70 (nowadays it's called 2.007). The 2 stands for Mechanical Engineering if you're interested. You'll see in this clip that this class is very similar to FIRST. In fact, 2.70 has been around for over 30 years!

So, this is a bit of a history lesson on how FIRST was created too. I thought I would share this with you all. I have had the true honor of meeting with Woodie recently and I must say that this world is truly lucky to have such an awesome man.

Keep dreaming big,
Matt Zitzmann