Posted by Al Skierkiewicz at 05/07/2001 7:44 AM EST
Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Wheeling High & Rolling Meadows High and Motorola.
Congrats to all the Technokat people for a wonderful competition. We had a great time. My hat’s off to you guys. You had so many people helping out it was amazing. Thank you to all the volunteers for all your help. It is always nice to spend some time with good friends doing something we all enjoy. I had a barbeque sandwich on Saturday and it was great, thanks Andy and family.
It was great to see everyone and all the robots I wasn’t able to see in Florida. There were some really innovative designs and I finally had a chance to get really close and see all the great work everyone did.
Thanks to our alliance partners #308 for picking us and #85 and #469 for playing a great game in the finals matches. Hope everyone had a good ride home.
Al
P.S. I think there may still be a higher score out there, maybe 800. At one of the other post season events we’ll see someone break it, thanks to #71 Team Hammond for trying!
Posted by colleen - T190 at 05/07/2001 9:23 AM EST
Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science and WPI.
In Reply to: IRI Good Times
Posted by Al Skierkiewicz on 05/07/2001 7:44 AM EST:
IRI definitely was a good time… we thank everyone there for welcoming us folks from the east-coast into your mid-west family… even if only for a couple days… and even though we couldn’t perform as well as we wished… it was worth the ride to see such an AMAZING group of teams compete (and to see the Dan Quayle musuem :P)
Anyway-- thanks again… it was a great time, and hopefully we can make it again in 2002 with more of our team to join the party 
Special thanks to the Technokats who helped us with everything thurs-saturday and our many partners during competition…
You are all welcome to trek it on over to Worcester for Battlecry… believe registration is today-ish… it’s only about 15hours from Kokomo
Posted by Jessica Boucher at 05/07/2001 12:51 PM EST
Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.
In Reply to: Re: IRI Good Times
Posted by colleen - T190 on 05/07/2001 9:23 AM EST:
Today-ish? The site still isn’t updated to take registration.
Just a little antsy/excited about it,
Jessica B, #237
Posted by Chris Hibner at 05/07/2001 4:45 PM EST
Coach on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW Automotive Electronics.
In Reply to: Re: IRI Good Times
Posted by colleen - T190 on 05/07/2001 9:23 AM EST:
: IRI definitely was a good time… we thank everyone there for welcoming us folks from the east-coast into your mid-west family… even if only for a couple days… and even though we couldn’t perform as well as we wished… it was worth the ride to see such an AMAZING group of teams compete (and to see the Dan Quayle musuem :P)
It’s understandable that your performance wasn’t as good as usual. Afterall, you were breaking in new drivers :). It was definitely great to see you guys there.
By the way, we’re sorry we were holding you guys up on the mini-golf course. We had a lot on the line.
-Chris