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American Competitive Initiative and FIRST
This opinion column appears in today's Baxter Bulletin in Mountain Home, Arkansas.
Thanks to Team 16 (Bomb Squad), FIRST makes a big impact on its local community, a community that speaks out proudly about the vision for FIRST. The American Competitive Initiative can provide the funds to encourage high-tech development in the US. Investing some of these funds in programs like FIRST will inspire our youth to become the researchers and inventors to lead the high-tech charge into the future.
P.S. My oldest son, Matthew, an alumnus of the Bomb Squad, just graduated from UCSB with a B.S. in Computer Science. His brother, Clayton, is entering his senior year at MHHS and is also a member of the Bomb Squad. They are why I got involved in FIRST...
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2003 AZ: Semifinals, Motorola Quality; SoCal: Q-finals, Xerox Creativity; IRI: Q-finals
2004 AZ: Semifinals, GM Industrial Design; SoCal: Winners, Leadership in Controls; Championship: Galileo #2 seed, Q-finals; IRI: Champions
2005 AZ: #1 Seed, Xerox Creativity; SoCal: Finalist, RadioShack Controls; SVR: Winners, Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technologies"; Championship: Archimedes Semifinals; IRI: Finalist
2007 LA: Finalist; San Diego: Q-finals; CalGames: Finalist || 2008 San Diego: Q-finals; LA: Winners; CalGames: Finalist || 2009 LA: Semifinals; Las Vegas: Q-finals; IRI: #1 Seed, Finalist
2010 AZ: Motorola Quality; LA: Finalist || 2011 SD: Q-finals; LA: Q-finals || 2013 LA: Xerox Creativity, WFFA, Dean's List Finalist || 2014 IE: Q-finals, LA: Finalist, Dean's List Finalist
2016 Ventura: Q-finals, WFFA, Engineering Inspiration
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