Congressional Robotics Caucus

[Mr MOE]

Originally Posted by dlavery

There are several other visits to add to the list. I will have to go back in my notes to look up the complete list of participating teams and events. But the ones that I remember off the top of my head include:

2001 (or 2000? I know John Larock will remember - we were both laughing so hard at this event that we could not breathe) - University Researchers Assault On Congress
Team 116
Team 365
(this was possibly the most awesome FIRST-related event on Capitol Hill ever held. ALL of the ones since then pale in comparison. Not because of anything the teams did, but because of the speech that Dean gave to 300 university presidents and Congressional liaison officers. You had to be there to understand. Dr. Charles Vest, then-president of M.I.T., still refuses to speak to Dean because of that speech.)
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Dave:

This event was in 2001. MOE was excited to be going because it was our second year in FIRST, we had been fortunate to have been part of the National Championship alliance in Disney that year, and Dean had not yet unveiled the Segway (it was called "IT" at that time). The event was a dose of reality in the midst of what FIRST meant to us at that time. Dean's speech did leave us speechless. It was one of those "Wow - how do we react to that?" moments and utterly memorable.

-J-