UFH: Dan Larochelle

[Francis-134]

Congratulations Dan! Thank you very much for your years of hard work for not only team 40, but for every team you have changed along the way. Now, I have a little story to tell you all about Dan (the following was included in the submission for Dan for the BattleCry 7 STAR award, which he was fortunate enough to win.

Many people say that they are addicted to FIRST, or that they are “FIRST-a-holics”. However, few match the unyielding dedication and passion of Dan Larochelle. During the 2004 season, our team discovered that there was simply no room to setup even a half sized field in the area where we build the robot. Dan tried to amend the situation by allowing the team to use his garage, but that was also too small. So, the only thing to do in his mind was to build a new garage that had inside dimensions of 27 feet by 26 feet, exactly one half the size of a full FIRST field. If that isn't dedication, I don't know what is.