President's Circle Teams Announced

[Pat_Fairbank]

I’m not sure when it happened, but it looks like the President’s Circle teams have been announced: http://www.usfirst.org/involved/content.aspx?id=5718

Congratulations to all those teams!

[Pavan_Dave]

To make life easier:

FIRST President Paul Gudonis invited twenty teams to join his President’s Circle and all accepted. This year, the President’s Circle will focus on inspiring the formation of new, sustainable teams. Paul announced the President’s Circle at the 2007 FIRST Championship with Chad Hurley, CEO and Founder of YouTube. He provided additional detail to teams in his own video, which you can see on FIRST’s Channel on YouTube.

The President’s Circle teams submitted their responses as videos which were uniformly impressive. View the submissions on FIRST’s YouTube Channel.

Congratulations to the following members of the 2007 President’s Circle (listed by team number):

Team 25 - Raider Robotix
Team 27 - Team RUSH
Team 45 - Teknokats
Team 71 - Team Hammond
Team 79 - The Navigators
Team 233 - Pink Team
Team 236 - Techno Ticks
Team 291 - The CIA
Team 337 - Starbot
Team 340 - Churchville-Chili FIRST
Team 341 - Miss Daisy
Team 365 - MOE
Team 812 - Midnight Mechanics|
Team 842 - Falcon Robotics
Team 1114 - Simbots
Team 1138 - Eagle Engineering
Team 1816 - The Green Machine
Team 1846 - xaviermania
Team 2067 - Apple Pi
Team 2283 - Panteras

The President’s Circle will collaborate through the summer and fall and share its expertise with the FIRST Community.

[J.Rees]

That’s some good company to be part of.

[Karthik]

That’s some good company to be part of.

38 Chairman’s Awards and 22 Engineering Inspirations between the 21 teams. Very impressive. (I included Championship CA honorable mentions in the tally)

[Schnabel]

They misspelled our name.:rolleyes:

[Beth_Sweet]

Holy cow! Check out the Panteras, that videolooks like it could actually be a television commercial!

!Que bueno Panteras! !!!Hicieron una pelicula muy buena!!!

[AdamHeard]

Wow, that is quite a list of teams… A few of them have always stood out to me as “Chairmans teams” (45, 341, 365, 812, 842)

[nuggetsyl]

Were national chairmans awards winners allowed to enter?

[Dan_Petrovic]

Were national chairmans awards winners allowed to enter?

MOE is on that list.

So yes.

[Schnabel]

Yes, any team was allowed to enter as it was a community wide process. They were hoping for many teams to enter in so that they could have judging in two steps with peer review on You tube being one. So any team had about the same ability to get into it.

[anon96464947]

Holy cow! Check out the Panteras, that videolooks like it could actually be a television commercial!

!Que bueno Panteras! !!!Hicieron una pelicula muy buena!!!

I love the camera angles and movement on everything.

-John

[rogerlsmith]

FYI
FIRST Objective is also part of the President’s Circle.

[BBnum3]

A huge congratulations to all the teams in the Circle, you guys deserve it. I’m very proud of my team for being mentioned along with so many legendary and up-and-coming teams.