MD State Fair

[Steve Shade]

We would like to congratulate the 11 teams that attended the MD State Fair. We gave away $11,600 to the teams plus $6,000 in scholarships for a total of $17,600! Congratulations and thanks to all the teams and volunteers who made this event a great success! Also thanks to Mike Wade of NASA Goddard for organizing this exceptional Off-season event. We would like to thank AutoDesk, AAI, MBNA, Sigma Space and Mantech for sponsoring the prize money for the event. And we would like to thank the MD State Fair for allowing us to have this wonderful opportunity.

Team Number Amount Won
Team 225 $2500
Team 306 $1750
Team 620 $1500
Team 422 $1350
Team 398 $950
Team 7 $850
Team 449 $800
Team 652 $750
Team 686 $650
Team 339 $250
Team 53 $250


We hope to see everyone next year!

Steve

[Matt Leese]

Along with what Steve said, I think we can say that the competition overall was a success. The Lieutanant Governor of Maryland, the Comptroller of Maryland, and the County Executive of Baltimore County all stopped by during the week. The Director of NASA GSFC, officials from AAI, and officials from the Maryland State Fair were on hand for the awards ceremony. A large number of fair goers stopped by to check out the tent so there was a good amount of FIRST publicity going on. We hope to do this again next year and hope that we can get a better turn out

Matt who refereed 127 matches over the course of 3 days last weekend