Kell Robotics wins major award, prizes, and money

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Congratulations everyone! A great award and some prize money to continue your great program. Who could ask for anything more? (to borrow a lyric)

[JaneYoung]

Way to go guys. I love seeing how all this hard work has culminated in a recognition of this caliber. Ed, I particularly want to thank you for keeping me in the loop with your team efforts. I always look forward to hearing about your latest adventures, ideas, and achievements. They are very special in this world where we see so much apathy, disconnect, and despair.

Keep setting that bar.

Jane

[Cynette]

This has me grinning from ear to ear!

Knowing how much effort you team spent on this project followed by the time spent on pins and needles after submitting for this award, I am so happy for you! Good show!

[ebarker]

Whats next ?

We are working on a presentation for FIRST Conferences.

The conference presentation is about how a team's mission (business plan) taps public perception of value to create support for the team's efforts.

It's a busy subject. It is an attempt to move public opinion toward FIRST and increase FIRST participant's ability to tap into public support.

It is a subject I spent years thinking about and very recently has been aided by drawing on resources such as Dutch Leonard at the Harvard Business School. Dutch lectures on the subject of performance management in the non-profit sectors.

We are planning on reducing the subject to something digestable and use this "Applied Robotics for Marine Sustainability" program and our participation in FIRST as a case study.

It should be in informative lecture for someone wanting to re-think how a team achieves better public support and sustainability. And to be very clear - we achieved sustainability before the SeaWorld Award. The award is gravy above and beyond the mainline business plan.

All this means that the student executive management staff and I will be camping out in Starbucks for weeks on end.

Of course this is assuming we are accepted to do the lecture.

Ed