**FIRST EMAIL*/Opportunity to host a potential team from New Zealand at the Champions

[Mr MOE]

MOE 365 hosted three students. We knew a few weeks before the Championship that a New Zealand regional was a consideration.

The New Zealand students that MOE hosted were well-versed in FIRST. They definitely did their homework and were ready to jump into the whole experience. It was a wonderful opportunity for our team members and their future team members. These students even walked down onto the Archimedes field with our MOE team members as we received our Division Finalist medals.

As we parted ways before the Finale, we were given a T-shirt that had "New Zealand Kiwis" on the back and "New Zealand FIRST regional 2009" on the front left.

We both learned very much through this experience.