pic: Visiting Israel's president

[Tottanka]

oh man...That's awesome!
Do you have any mroe details on the "sponsering" that Microsoft is going to be providing.
Will it be for individual teams or the event as a whole?

[Guy_E]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

oh man...That's awesome!
Do you have any mroe details on the "sponsering" that Microsoft is going to be providing.
Will it be for individual teams or the event as a whole?

As far as I know, they'll be sponsoring the entire Regional and not any specific team.

[feliks_rosenber]

Has anyone watched yesterday's Mabat news cast on channel 1?

They did tell about Microsoft getting involved and Shimon Peres launching a new program to attract people to engineering through participation in FIRST.
Moreover, they mentioned some scholarship opportunities to overachieving participants.
Anyone knows anything about that ?

Sounds pretty interesting...

[Cynette]

Guy – thanks for posting the photo and congratulations to your team for their representation of FIRST to the Israeli President!

To all of the FIRSTers in Israel who take the time to post on CD – Guy, Nir, Liron, Feliks, David and others: Thanks for reminding us how small the world really is!

(and thanks for finding the English versions of your news articles to read!! )

[Jon236]

To help round out this great thread, here is the link of President Peres speaking at the Tel Aviv Regional this year...... http://corpvideofs.adpcorp.com/video/jw/peres_400kb.wmv

[Guy_E]

Originally Posted by Jon236

To help round out this great thread, here is the link of President Peres speaking at the Tel Aviv Regional this year...... http://corpvideofs.adpcorp.com/video/jw/peres_400kb.wmv

And guess whose button he's wearing? ours....

[Tottanka]

Originally Posted by Guy_E

And guess whose button he's wearing? ours....

and guess whose robot is behind him? ours =]

[feliks_rosenber]

Shimon Peres definately hit the nail on the head talking about the future,
explaining how he envisions the world of tomorrow.

His speech was inspiring to me teaching how to think outside of the box.

It is no wonder that a few months later he decided to launch a new project to bolster science and technology in Israel.
It proves to us that he was really earnest in his speech.

[David55]

Originally Posted by Jon236

To help round out this great thread, here is the link of President Peres speaking at the Tel Aviv Regional this year...... http://corpvideofs.adpcorp.com/video/jw/peres_400kb.wmv

Jon,
Thanks for posting the video. At the time I was way too concentrated on our first match to actually listen and remember what he said. It was nice to watch it again and actually listen to him this time.

On a side note, I just wanted to point out that at the time of the regional last year, Shimon Peres was not yet the president (although he was a prominent politician and has been prime minister twice). I think that this year the press coverage (especially from major newspapers and news channels) and the general interest in the competition will be much greater now that he is the president and will be attending the regional.

[Scott Carpman]

This is really promising for all of FIRST. If Peres achieves his goal, we'll need more than 1 regional for Israel .

[Tottanka]

Originally Posted by David55

Jon,
Thanks for posting the video. At the time I was way too concentrated on our first match to actually listen and remember what he said. It was nice to watch it again and actually listen to him this time.

On a side note, I just wanted to point out that at the time of the regional last year, Shimon Peres was not yet the president (although he was a prominent politician and has been prime minister twice). I think that this year the press coverage (especially from major newspapers and news channels) and the general interest in the competition will be much greater now that he is the president and will be attending the regional.

Actually, at the time of the regional he was the vise-prime-minister.

[feliks_rosenber]

I thought it would be nice to add a picture of my team visiting our city mayor.
We met a few months ago with mr. Haim Tsuri who is the mayor of Kiryat Motzkin.

We talked for hours about our impressions from the championship event.
I personally said that it was a life changing experience for me.

Another student shared his dream with the mayor. He said he hopes one day we will have sophisticated equipment for the construction of the robot.

The mayor promised us to do his best and help us financially this season.
So we are looking forward to see his deeds.

I know it is of less importance than meeting with the president but the more publuc figures hear about FIRST the better it is for us.

Anyhow, I think it's great that more and more public figures get involved in FIRST in Israel.

[feliks_rosenber]

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