Great Lakes Regional 08

[Mr.G]

Well after seven years we got lucky. It finally started to sink in yesterday.

Just want to say thanks to the HOT team. You guys and gals are an incredible team and have inspired us for years. Every year your robot is an absolute master piece. I would be worried about scratching it. Your team never gives up and really represents what First is about. Glad we got to go to the finals with you again.

503 hope we get to play with u more often then against. You guys just keep turning out great robots year after year. What really impresses me is how you guy work so well with other teams and results show.

There was an incredible amount of team work and good clean fun that made it all come together.

217, what an incredible robot. To bad luck wasn't there for your team, you guys are still assume. Coming into the finals I was hoping you'd get 3 in a row. I don't know if we could have pulled it out against you guy’s full force. We have drawn up and build some crazy designs over the years and most of them worked marginally, but I think your design takes the all time cake. What a great robot. I am sure it will be copied in some future year’s game and am sure it won't work for the copy cats. Paul I think you and your team could turn a box Scooby snacks into a functioning robot.

Everyone take a break and see you at Nationals. Peace.

[Ryan Dognaux]

There are around 325 pictures in our Picasa album from the trip, if you want to check them out follow the link: http://picasaweb.google.com/rdognaux/2008GLR

The pictures obviously have a Purdue FIRST Programs focus but there are other robots from the event in the album as well.