FW: NEED ASAP--VITAL TO TEAM 476

 

 

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From: Harold Holley [mailto:hholley5@suddenlink.net]
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 11:23 AM
To: hholley5@suddenlink.net
Subject: FW: NEED ASAP--VITAL TO TEAM 476
Importance: High

 

Dear teams,

 

Team 476 would like a “team testimony” email from your team by Monday. See Tonya’s email below. If interested send email to scotttl@pcps.us

 

 

Harold Holley

Oklahoma Regional Director

US FIRST

405.747.6463

 

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From: Tonya Scott [mailto:SCOTTTL@pcps.us]
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 11:09 AM
To: Harold Holley
Subject: NEED ASAP--VITAL TO TEAM 476
Importance: High

 

Harold—please send to all Oklahoma (and other teams) that attended the kickoff and/or OKC regional

 

 

 

Message from Team 476,

 

Team 476 is compiling letters from teams to include in our Chairman’s Award Book.  The theme of our Chairman’s Presentation this year is “A Decade of Inspiration”.  Our main goal is to help teams in as many ways as possible, from the Quick Build Session at the Kickoff, to the Team Summit in the fall, and at the competitions.  Our team made a presentation to the Legislative Education Allocations Committee, and helped bring about the $100K to help start new teams.  We also made presentations to the State Career Tech summer conferences, to the Governor, and have spoken on the Senate Floor, promoting FIRST Robotics in our state.  We were also a BETA test team last fall for the new control system, and our lone student programmer, Jordan, has helped many teams with programming at the competition.  He really enjoys helping the other teams—that is what he looks forward to the most at competitions. 

 

If you feel compelled to be a part of our Chairman’s Book, we graciously invite your input.  Many of you have already submitted your “team testimony” in years past, but would love to include a new letter from this year.  We will be compiling 5 copies of the books on Tuesday, and leave for Dallas on Wed morning.  If you want to send us a letter, or other photo/document to include in our Chairman’s book, e-mail it by Monday.  We enjoyed the OKC regional and are so very pleased that there are now 50 teams in the great state of Oklahoma.  We remember when there was just a small handful of Okie robotics teams!  Now our family has grown!

 

We would also like to express our sincere appreciation for the Gracious Professionalism Award at the OKC regional—many teams shared our common stories and touched the hearts of the judges.  Thanks for thinking of us, and taking the time to share your stories with the judges.  It was very meaningful to receive this award!

 

Thanks again—we hope you have a moment to share your thoughts and memories and be included in our Chairman’s Award Book.  We look forward to see all of you at the Leadership Retreat this summer, the Team Summit in the fall, and a few of you at Dallas.

 

Good luck to the Dallas teams –maybe an Okie alliance will win the Dallas Championship!!!! 

 

Thanks for all that you do for us—and we continue to extend an open door invitation to anyone that needs help or has questions.

 

Thanks

Tonya Scott