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[MadeAtMidnight]

I understand his frustration. Here academics/achievements gets put in the Thursday paper stuck in the middle of the People section under a small heading called Brain Games.

A couple of years ago, our animation team made it to the top 5 and were heading for Atlanta, when I called the Rockford paper. He asked about how the robot did that year. I told him we had made it to quarter finals at one regional and semi finals at another.

So --on Thursday in the middle of the People section -- was a small headline that read "Bago Bot Falls in Regionals". Halfway down the section it talked about how we had made it to the top 5 in animations.

We were hoping that this year since both the Rockford team and our team won at Wisconsin, that we could finally get them to put something in, but I haven't seen anything yet.

However, our small town (pop. 3000) paper has been wonderful about putting in articles about our team and their projects.

[ATannahill]

Our team was mentioned in the paper when we appeared on ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition, I don't remember much about the article since I wasn't on the team at that time.

[armyOFdarkness]

Originally Posted by MadeAtMidnight

I understand his frustration. Here academics/achievements gets put in the Thursday paper stuck in the middle of the People section under a small heading called Brain Games.

A couple of years ago, our animation team made it to the top 5 and were heading for Atlanta, when I called the Rockford paper. He asked about how the robot did that year. I told him we had made it to quarter finals at one regional and semi finals at another.

So --on Thursday in the middle of the People section -- was a small headline that read "Bago Bot Falls in Regionals". Halfway down the section it talked about how we had made it to the top 5 in animations.

We were hoping that this year since both the Rockford team and our team won at Wisconsin, that we could finally get them to put something in, but I haven't seen anything yet.

However, our small town (pop. 3000) paper has been wonderful about putting in articles about our team and their projects.

We will have a story covering both teams (I believe) in the Rockford Register Star hopefully prior to we go to Atlanta. I know we were able to get something run during the 2007 build season as well. We are trying to get a reporter to our meeting this Thursday night.

[MadeAtMidnight]

Originally Posted by armyOFdarkness

We will have a story covering both teams (I believe) in the Rockford Register Star hopefully prior to we go to Atlanta. I know we were able to get something run during the 2007 build season as well. We are trying to get a reporter to our meeting this Thursday night.

That would be excellent!