Arizona Regional

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally posted by Ken L
Caroline from GRT brought a VCR to tape the FIRST feed, and all the vhs tapes are now back at California, and copies will be made. I believe I can get some of them to be sent off to SOAP to get digitized, or to De Anza High School. I will get back to you in a day or two.

Thank you so much. Our 10yo programmer and videographer has to put a video project together very soon for his school. His mom emailed me, "He confirmed what Nick knew: there were 'issues' with the feeds for videotaping, thus the taping of the first day came out all red and probably unusable. We weren't the only team to setup a VCR and not get a recording because of this feed problem."

She asked me to see what we could do.

BTW, our high school videographer was not a member of our team, joined us in AZ as a favor to my daughter, our team's captain. He is from another school, who doesn't yet have a robotics' team. He was so impressed by the whole experience, here's what he emailed me,

"Ms. Miller, I heard you were the one in charge of publications and I told Angela that I really love to do that stuff and she told me that you would love someone to help you out in that area. If you need any help I would love to help the team by helping you. I have a couple ideas you can do for publicity for your sponsors and would like to help you with the overall look of the teams information.

I also wanted to thank you for the opporitunity to film the Phoenix Regional. I had a great experience meeting the team and learn what robotics was all about, community. Without community, there is no team, and without a team, there is no robot, and without a robot there is no robotics. Thank you again for the chance to meet such an influential team.
Sincerely,
Nick Shepard"

He then asked if he could join our team. YES!!! (We have a 10yo programming whiz, 2 8th graders, 2 members from Peninsula High who wouldn't get a team off the ground, and now North High Videographer Nick. Our hope is this will motivate more local schools to start teams.)

Thank you AZ for helping other parents and students too on our team realize that the FIRST program is not only about building a robot. They were very impressed with the community and spirit.