Dean's List Finalists

[Al Skierkiewicz]

At least it is not on Thursday. I hope to make it on Friday. This is a very important event and I want the finalists to know it. They are very special people!

[Boydean]

Maybe they'll feed us? I mean it is smack in the middle of lunch time. I do feel bad for finalist whose teams are competing. Like its been said, most of these winners are a crucial part of their team.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

This is a very important event and I want the finalists to know it. They are very special people!

I'm very sorry that I won't be in Atlanta to help celebrate this very special award. It would be a priority in my schedule to be there. Just as with all of the events and awards ceremonies, there isn't a good time. Everything fits around the robot competitions and the event planners do the best that they can as more and more wonderful events continue to be fit into the already jam-packed days.

Because everything centers around the robot competitions and because the Finalists are involved and crucial to their teams, there will be students who may not be able to attend the ceremony. Perhaps they can plan to have a teammate or representative in their place and to remind the members of the team when and where the ceremony is so that they can be there to be a part of it. The good news is that the announcements will be made on Friday during the noontime and this will give folks the rest of the time in Atlanta to enjoy and celebrate with everyone.

Jane

[rsisk]

Dang, if I was a Dean's List Finalist, and in Atlanta, I'd crawl through broken glass to get there.

I'm going to do my best to be at the award ceremony to honor the 10 awesome students who earned this award.

[Chris is me]

FIRST doesn't seem to be doing the best job of timing things... Next year it'll be better though, personally I hope alongside WFA.

I won't be able to make it; I wish the winners well! GO KATIE!

[lscime]

While I'm sure that FIRST has a good reason for picking this time slot (such as the Secretary of Education's schedule) I have a feeling lunch will be really hectic. I'm crossing my fingers that our robot won't break and bringing protein bars to substitute for lunch... since there's always a good chance we'll be queuing for a match right after the break

[vic burg]

Does anyone know when the final 10 will be posted? It's 2 days (or so) before and.... no word yet? Just wondering.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

From the Dean's List Criteria...


All FIRST Dean's List Finalists (we anticipate there will be 96 FIRST Dean’s List Finalists for the 2010
season) will be considered for the FIRST Dean’s List at the FIRST Championship in Atlanta using the
essays provided from their nominating teams. FIRST Dean's List Finalists do not have to be present at
the FIRST Championship to be considered for advancement to the FIRST Dean's List. This year, ten
Finalists shall be selected at the FIRST Championship (FRC) as the FIRST Dean’s List Award winners.

[Phil Ross]

Originally Posted by vic burg

Does anyone know when the final 10 will be posted? It's 2 days (or so) before and.... no word yet? Just wondering.

Just as are posted on the bottom of the awards page for each individual regional I'm sure they will be posted on the awards page for the Championships.

Also, it will probably be posted in this thread later Friday evening.

Good luck to all the finalists!

[RoboMom]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=85176

[vic burg]

Good to know! Good luck to all of the finalists, then!

[Ogehsim]

I'm a finalist and wasn't able to make it down to Atlanta. The wait is driving me crazy!!!! I wish they would webcast this.

(Please, please, please would some nice person with a laptop post the 10 winners?)

[Tanner]

They had the event which featured the pretty awesome rap song.

I don't have the list, but congratts to all of them. We'll have to take a group picture when we can.

-Tanner

[JaneYoung]

Looking at the FIRST website, I don't see a place where they can update the awards info such as the Dean's List, The Woodie Flowers Award, or The Volunteer Of The Year Award on Friday. Perhaps there is and I just haven't found it. It was really cool to be able to see the awards given each day during the regional competitions. Further looking shows that there is space for the info to be provided in each of the 4 fields. I still don't see a place for the Dean's List, though.

Jane

Edit: Thank you, Ryan!
Congratulations, all! A special congratulations to Carlos Pineda and his team, FRC 1480!

[Ryan Dognaux]

Found this on Twitter - http://twitter.com/FRCTeams

548 Beth Hadley
694 Seth Berg
1002 Kyle Fender
1480 Carlos Pineda
1535 Ian Graham
1712 Delia Votsch
2437 Caitlin Mori
2614 Luke Scime
3132 Sarah Heimlich
3368 Ingrid Fiedler

Congratulations to the winners!