Senior Moments and Last Words

[Akash Rastogi]

Just thought some seniors would like to share their experience with their teams and get a chance to vent all that they are feeling or if the rest of their team would like to express thanks to the graduating class. Following the permission of a few people, I wanted to share some things...

Mike Nawrot- End Effector Captain- MIT 2012

We are team mates,
We are coworkers.
We are leaders,
We are creative minds.
We are friends,
We are family.

We are MORT
And we are your future.

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Alex Tessmer- Drive Train Captain-Penn State 2012

10 years from now you won't remember who won on Einstein or what division we were in.

But you will remember the hours you spent building a robot.
You will remember your teammates and what they meant to you.
You will remember learning more about life in 6 weeks than in 18 years of schooling.
Keep tradition alive! It links us to our past and keeps us going toward our future. On 3...

GO MORT

MORT '08
We did what we do, and moved forward...
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Derrek Ridings-Design team and Inventor- Rochester Institute of Technology 2012

Wow. Its been an amazing ride. MORT has really made something incredible out of life. I've met some of the most wonderful people I will probably ever have the chance to know through it, and I really don't know what to do with myself now that its gone. Even with college right around the corner, I just don't know what I'm going to feel like now that I know I no longer have MORT to return to year after year. I do know that I will never forget this team, and I will never forget the people on it. You are all what made high school worth it. Thank you.
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And a little something from me: Akash Rastogi-Sophomore Mt. Olive High School

MORT 08

To all the seniors:

Thank you all so much for being there when I needed help, when I
had a question, when I was bored as hell and you found the most
unbelievable ways of having fun throughout the two years that I have
been able to work alongside you all. But most of all, thank you for
showing me what FIRST can truly do for someone: how many opportunities
it can create, the friends you can make, and the level of pride,
confidence, and leadership a young student can have for their team,
their school, for FIRST, and for themselves. I will love and remember
you all forever, and please, never stop what you are and have been
doing in these past years. Its because of friends like you that I
understand Dean's, Woodie's, and Mr. McGowan's concept that students
in FIRST will change the world.

I will work my hardest to put MORT on the map; as will the rest of the
team that you are leaving behind.

We will take Einstein one day...

may it take 1 year, 5 years, or 10 years...whatever. We'll do it.
Because as they say, "when there's a will, there's a way."

Next season is for you guys.

Sincerely,
Akash