Congratulations Dave Lavery on the Volunteer Award for 2009!

[Foster]

Congrats to Dave Lavery (dlavery) for winning the 2009 Volunteer Award at Nationals!

It was a great acceptance speech too!

[DonRotolo]

My goodness, hasn't he won this every year? No? That's criminal. Some day they will name an award after him.

The guy works a real job - and not a trivial one either - and still finds time to contribute SO MUCH to FIRST. (Maybe there's more than one of him?)

Now to find an archive of the speech.

Congratulations Dave!

Don

[Billfred]

Only in FIRST would we celebrate a man who drives thousands completely nuts with his banana-and-clownfish-influenced utterings.

Congrats, Dave!

[Pavan Dave]

No award in FIRST's arsenal can do Dave's service justice.

[dangerousdave]

Well deserved, long overdue and yes, the best acceptance speech of the day.
Dave

[MissInformation]

Shouldn't that be volunteer of the decade???

That's one well-earned and well-deserved award! Congrats! And thanks for everything you do for 116 as well as the rest of FIRST!

Heidi

[ebarker]

I can't believe y'all have not figured this out yet !!!!!!

The reason there are two copies of the Mars rover is because there are two copies of Dave.

Except here on earth, one works for NASA and the other works for FIRST. They just look alike and are completely interchangeable.

[Mike Schroeder]

Cool beans, Congrats Dave... a BIG thank you from a BIG guy for all you do, including guiding me in the right direction on more than one occasion.

[Josh Goodman]

Congrats! Definitely well earned and deserved for a while. Please keep up the good work! FIRST wouldn't be the same!

[efoote868]

alright... so where's the doughnuts?

[RoboMom]

Congrats Dave!
Thanks for all you do.
(And thanks to NASA TV so I can watch the action today).

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by MissInformation

Shouldn't that be volunteer of the decade???

That's one well-earned and well-deserved award! Congrats! And thanks for everything you do for 116 as well as the rest of FIRST!

Heidi

Volunteer of to many decades?

BZ Dave.

Wetzel

[Chris Fultz]

Congratulations Dave for the 2009 Championship Volunteer of the Year recognition.

We all appreciate everything you do for FIRST overall, for the individual teams, and for the GDC.

I don't know what kick-off would be without your animation!

Thanks and Congratulations!

Chris

[Vikesrock]

Dave hasn't won this before now?

Congrats Dave, on a very well deserved award.

[Bharat Nain]

Congratulations Dave! You've done things in FIRST I never thought were possible