**FIRST EMAIL**/Exciting New Dean Kamen Award - Deadline Imminent - February 26, 2010

[Joe Ross]

Greetings Teams:

Dean Kamen wishes to honor his parents, Jack and Evelyn Kamen, with the creation of a new award to celebrate FIRST Student Superstars - the FIRST Dean’s List Award!

Details on this award will be found on the FIRST website at: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...nt.aspx?id=440.

Two students will be chosen at each regional event (six students at the Michigan State Championship) based on a submitted essay to be FIRST Dean’s List Finalists. The student submittal site will open tomorrow, Tuesday 2/23 at 12:00PM EST, and close on Friday 2/26 at 4:30PM EST to allow for submission. Each team may submit two students for this award at one event at which they are participating. Only the 96 winners of the FIRST Dean’s Finalist Award are eligible for consideration in the selection of the FIRST Dean’s List Award to be presented at the FIRST Championship.

We hope you will join us in thanking Dean for making this great opportunity available in the 2010 season. Each of you now shares in the distinct honor of participating in the inaugural year of this important award. We highly encourage all teams to submit and wish all students being nominated the best of luck!

Go Teams!