Dreams, A Better World, and Favorable Energy

[Dan Zollman]

I just received news that the award mentioned above has been approved for Pennsylvania TSA!

[Rich Kressly]

As Dave reports here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...43&postcount=8 , Randy Pausch passed away earlier this morning. If you haven't had the time to learn from him whlle he was on this planet with us, please scroll to the top of this thread and take the time to do so now. The world will miss professor Pausch, but his legacy will surely inspire millions more in his absence. Be one of those people if you aren't already.

[Sylvia]

I always feel so cool when I see someone quote from a book I've read. <---(I can use smilies too). And I as well must add onto my reading list.

I think everyone's done enough of a job complimenting Kressly on actually taking time to think during summer vacation (really, who does that?), so I won't bother.

I was surprised to find that when I clicked "cntrl f -- gracious professionalism" firefox did not find it once in Kress's speech! Which means I get to rant about it for a second!

While FIRST is just a method of channeling this "favorable energy," as somewhat of a noob I must say it seems to do a $@#$@#$@#$@# good job. Every competition I feel like I walked into some new world (comparable only to traveling through Dr. Seuss land at Universal Studios in Florida). My own Dawgma members astound me, helping new teams and ultimately gaining the philly g.p. award! I'm not all into that feng shui (my mom is--she periodically rearranges things to face odd directions), but I do believe that a little bit of g.p. can cause a reaction similar to that of a neutron and uranium (not in the blow-up-everything way, but the lots-of-energy-from-a-little-bit-of-matter way. I'm so good at analogies). In short: we rock.

Well, I believe that well-organized and coherent rant sums it up for me.
Thanks for being awesome Kressly.

-Sylvia

[Sylvia]

I'm not allowed to say $@#$@#$@#$@#?!

[JaneYoung]

Apparently not, but the FIRST experience and traveling through Dr. Seuss land was so much better as a visual anyway.

[Rich Kressly]

GREAT NEWS ABOUT THE SPREAD OF OUR MISSION!
I wanted to share great news about FIRST exposure via the Technology Student Association website. Since FRC 1712 is part of a larger Tech & Engineering Club that also has a TSA Chapter, we were able to leverage some success the chapter has had regionally and nationally this past year to include FIRST in an article national TSA wanted to publish about our outreach program that began with our FRC students. The credit belongs to club founder/TSA Advisor/and my counterpart Mark Piotrowski who was contacted by the national TSA director and interviewed for the piece. He insisted that the article should include FIRST and TSA, an organization that engages 150,000 students in STEM activities each year. It's very cool that TSA was gracious enough to recognize FIRST when some might see it as a "competing" organization. It's nice to know real "coopertition" is alive and well at the organizational level in the real world. The students from both sides of our club are thrilled that their hard work is helping to bring these two worlds together. Here are the links:

http://tsaweb.org/ - look for featured member in the bottom left and/or
http://tsaweb.org/LMHS-Portable%20Inspiration - direct link to the article

namaste,
rich