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No visit in '98.
Posted by Andy Baker.
Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 11/9/2000 6:43 AM MST
In Reply to: For what it's worth... posted by Joe Johnson on 11/8/2000 2:04 PM MST:
From what I recall, both the Chairman's Award winner and the National Champ. used to be invited to the White House.
We were not invited in '98 (45: National Champs), and Chief Delphi didn't go in '97 (47: Chairman's Award). So, the practice must've halted after '96.
I do remember that there were some folks from FIRST looking into getting us a visit in '98 (Vince?). About the same time that FIRST was inquiring about a visit to the White House, a scandal surfaced at the White House... it had something to do with interns and someone named Lewinsky. Hmmm... I wonder what ever bacame of that?!?
Our team was definitely excited about a possible trip to the White House and disappointed that it did not come through. I personally, would've been happy to visit the White House, but I would've had second thoughts about shaking Clinton's hand.
Let's hope that this old tradition gets put back in place with either Bush or Gore.
For what it's worth... I hope that it is Bush.
Andy B.
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