UFH: Mike Wade

[Mike Schroeder]

Mike Wade is the person who The UFH was created for,

Mike is probobly one of the best people to have running a Field weather it be FIRST or NASA built, he is a great mentor and one of the people i can only hope to aspire to when it comes to mentoring FIRST teams...

I Remeber the first year we held brunswick eruption, i was the head ref, and in the finals a robot was damaged, and after mike spoke to the crowd and the teams about the rules concerning time outs in the finals, we the team decided to call their time out, when that time ran out, the opposing alliance captain called a time out to graciously give them a fighting chance, when that was up the team was still unable to complete (and their robot was in pieces on the field) and i started freaking out and asked him what i should do, and his told me that it was my discision, and in looking back that was reallly cool he left that big of a discision in the hands of a Highschool student. I of course made the wrong discision, but hey we still had a night 2 vs 2 fight in the finals instead of 2 vs 1 ( and i learned that a nice guy is ussually the one getting yelled at by the crowds )



Thank you Mike for all your hard work and dedication, and to use a phrase that is quite often over used, With out yours or Pete's help, FIRST on the East Coast could not have prospered like it has.