2007 Championship Congrats

[mateus]

Originally Posted by SSMike

Congrats to all teams that competed in FIRST (and the Championship). Awesome job on completing the task that FIRST had you do!

A very big round of applause for The Winners (190, 177, and 987) and the Finalists (233, 71, and 179)

Congrats to all award winners:
Woodie Flowers Award: Dan Green (111)
Founder's Award: General Motors
General Motors Industrial Design: 330
Imagery: 34
Motorola Quality: 234
Autodesk Visualization: 1625
Autodesk Inventor: 103
Xerox Creativity: 79
Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship: 1026
Delphi's Driving Tomorrow's Technology: 375
KPCB Entrepreneurship: 357
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control: 386
Judge's Award #1 ("Going above and beyond the call of duty"): 922
Judge's Award #2: 71
Judge's Award #3("Paying it forward"): 1382
Daimler Chrysler Team Spirit: 1266
Rookie Inspiration: 2194
Rookie All-Star: 2283
UL Safety Award: 337
Engineering Inspiration: 178
Chairman's Award: 365

congrats to every team... speacially these winners above... it was an incredible competition...

soory about that, i believe it`s a stupid question... but i didn`t understand the "Paying it forward" about my own team prize...

thanks and congrats

[=Martin=Taylor=]

Thanks and Congrats to the Devil Duckies !

They really deserved the Spirit award (I think that’s what they won...)

They were an amazing team, had a powerful robot, and cool hair
The Duckies presented us with the only award we won at the Championships - and it was a cool one too !

I'd also like to thank 114. Their robot wasn't there - but they were! It was fun partying with those guys And they also helped us program our camera and get it running.

Thanks to Andy (from frc 45) for loaning us some omnis and helping us solve our serious turning problems. Andy literally looked at our robot, asked a few questions, told us what to do... and voila, a problem which had caused us hours of grief was solved... That guy is a genius...

Thanks to Team 175, Buzz, for helping us do our homework! You guys were awesome and really deserve that place in the Hall of Fame! They also let us use their tools.

[Jimmy Nichols]

I want to thank Da Bears, team 247 for choosing us as their partner. We were hoping to ride the Da Bears all the way to Einstein, but unfortunately it didn't work out.

Congratulations to 190, 177, and 987 in winning the Championship. It goes to show that Newton was one of the strongest divisions, when an 8th seeded team can win it all.

Team 1038 is looking forward to our off-season tournaments and our other off-season activities. I look forward to seeing and talking to all the great people I met this year and meeting some more great people next year.

Thanks everyone for making it an awesome year.

[katiyeh07]

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII

Thanks and Congrats to the Devil Duckies !

They really deserved the Spirit award (I think that’s what they won...)

They were an amazing team, had a powerful robot, and cool hair
The Duckies presented us with the only award we won at the Championships - and it was a cool one too !

I'd also like to thank 114. Their robot wasn't there - but they were! It was fun partying with those guys And they also helped us program our camera and get it running.

Thanks to Andy (from frc 45) for loaning us some omnis and helping us solve our serious turning problems. Andy literally looked at our robot, asked a few questions, told us what to do... and voila, a problem which had caused us hours of grief was solved... That guy is a genius...

Thanks to Team 175, Buzz, for helping us do our homework! You guys were awesome and really deserve that place in the Hall of Fame! They also let us use their tools.

No...thank you for doing it.

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII

Thanks to Andy (from frc 45) for loaning us some omnis and helping us solve our serious turning problems. Andy literally looked at our robot, asked a few questions, told us what to do... and voila, a problem which had caused us hours of grief was solved... That guy is a genius...

Wow... thanks for the thanks. I was glad to help. Thank you for turning to AndyMark for assistance.

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On another note, I especially want to give a very large congratulations to MARK KOORS for winning the Volunteer of the Year award.

Mark is my partner in our AndyMark venture, and I simply could not have been prouder someone for a well-deserved award.

I also want to congratulate the Delphi Corporation for allowing Mark to take time away from his day job so he can be at FIRST for many weeks this past fall. (Both Mark and I still work at Delphi.) FIRST accepted Mark as a contributing engineer, as he helped with many aspects within the engineering department.

Mark, you are an inspiration to us all.

Sincerely,
Andy Baker

[Dmentor]

Congratulations to MOE! Spectacular stuff. Every year the team's just keep raising that Chairman bar higher and higher. I guess we had better get started on solving world hunger if we are every going to be worthy!

Congratulations to 190-177-987! You made all of Newton proud.

Team 2068 would like to thank 68 for picking us to join their alliance and 111 for being an excellent teammate (an aside - I loved your chairman's video it was great!). You are both great inspirations to us and we enjoyed playing some great matches. If we only could have ramped a bot in each of our semifinal matches... who knows where we would have ended up!

Thanks also to 1124 and 292 for the fun matches. I thought we played very well together.

Thanks to 2108 for lending us some of your tools. It was great competing with you at VCU and hope to see you again next year.

Thanks to 1511 for hosting the Rookie Meet and Greet. It was nice meeting you Larry.

Thanks to the legions of volunteers that made the championships possible!

[The Lucas]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

Way to go 357 - Congrats on the Entrepreneurship Award. The recognition is well deserved and everyone in the Philly region is VERY proud of your efforts indeed.

Congrats to Team 357, Royal Assault, on winning the KCPB Entrepreneurship Award. This award is often overlooked, but I (and many others) consider it very similar to the EI and Chairman's awards. As Rich said the whole Philly area is very proud of you.

357 is actually the 3rd Philly area team to win the Entrepreneurship award at Championships in the last 5 years. Look at the list:
2007) 357
2006) 234
2005) 365
2004) 301
2003) 341
I've posted on the achievements and similarities (2000 rookie year, only teams to win Philly RCA) of our 3 teams (341, 357 & 365) before, and this is another major one. Also there is that odd coincidence that Teams 357 & 365 flew AirTran flight 341 into Atlanta this year.

I love your mecanum wheelchair. The way it maneuvered through the crowded pits is a testament to its brilliance. Also thanks once again for loaning us a battery (so we could compete against you in our first match).

[Ben Martin]

Thanks to 1700 for drafting us!

Also, thanks to 118 for joining our alliance.

Congratulations to the winners, 190, 177, and 987.

Also congratulations to the national runners-up, 233, 179, and 71. You guys all have outstanding teams, and hopefully I'll see some of you at the IRI.

Finally, congratulations to 178 for winning the Engineering Inspiration Award and 365 for winning the Chairman's Award. You guys have something to be proud of.