Team 538- loss of a mentor

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We just wanted to let the Chief Delphi and FIRST members know that our team lost one of our mentors this weekend. Mike Leberman became involved with Arab Robotics our rookie year. He has been a vital member of our team for the past seven years. He was a retired engineer from NASA. Mike donated his time and knowledge to all of our members even though he had no children in the school system. We came to call him the engineers engineer. He allowed our students to come up with ideas and helped them when their ideas wouldn't work. He beleived in learning by doing. He will be greatly missed not only by our team but by the whole community as well. He was a wonderful mentor. To show you how much he thought of the FIRST program his family had memorial donations directed to Arab High School Robotics. We know he will be smiling down on all the regionals this year.