Robot Stolen in Seattle -- Team 1778

[Bob Steele]

I got this distressing email from Kevin Crader - mentor for team 1778

I am sorry to report that our robot Chilly was stolen yesterday out out of the back of our teachers van. He has filed a police report, and we have involved King5 and Komo4 news. This is a tragic event, a huge loss to all of us in Mountlake Terrace Robotics, but we will hopefully come out ahead. It's not useful to anyone else. We are reaching out to whoever took it to just return it to a fire station, no questions asked. And if we can get a plug in that if you are interested in getting involved in FIRST Robotics or supporting our team. This is the project that my son Brandon, myself, 25 other high school kids and mentors worked on last year.

If anyone has any information about this please let me know and I will relay the information to the Mountlake Terrace team...

I also think considering how devastating this is to their team they were still thinking of ways to promote FIRST in general... This says a great deal about their team.

Our team has already offered to loan our robot if they need it for a demo.

Please just be aware... if anything shows up on anyone's Craiglists or Ebay please let us know..

thanks for the thoughts