Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014

Thursday night's banquet was full of sadness over losing our seniors mixed with excitement for our incoming leaders.  Congratulations to Brandon, Taylor and Conner for being named 2014 captains and to Dianna, Parth, and Erin for being named co-captains.  We know with your leadership, you will continue to grow our team.  I am excited to hear your ideas and vision for our team!

Our seniors have contributed so much to our team.  We will miss them greatly!  Andrew, Kailey & Bekah, know that you have a very special spot in all of our hearts!  We look forward to witnessing the great things in your future.  Andrew, we have coached you since junior high, and it is hard to imagine not seeing you at practice and on our team!  Kailey, we met you as a freshman, and you have learned so much about FIRST robotics.  You will always be a part of our family!   Bekah, I will miss having my daughter on my team, but I look forward to this new chapter in your life! All of you should visit often, and we look forward to the day when you will be able to mentor our team (or any team you end up near)!  I know you will miss being on a team, but you will just get to see a new side of being on a team now!  Take the next year and figure out what college is like, and then we will see you back if you are ready.

I wanted to take a minute to thank all of you for the wonderful blanket and gift card.  It was very nice of you.  Nick, Hannah & I were honored by this.   This year has been full of many wonderful memories that will not soon be forgotten.  Having the blanket to remind us of all of you is very nice.

I would also like to thank all of you that nominated Hannah, Bekah and/or myself for the Spirit of FIRST award.  I had someone else in mind when we discussed this award, but there is always next year! :)

I am going to start using this blog to pass information along about our team.  I will post a link on FB, and possibly email reminders, but this will be my primary method of communication.  This way, those without FB can keep in touch.  Please make sure you bookmark it and try to read it regularly.  This will be easier to find information on that our FB posts and billion emails. :)

Currently, we have our 2014 applications out.  If you have not signed up for next year, you may do so here:
Returning Team Member Applications for 2014 
If you have friends that would like to join our team for next year, they can sign up here:
Rookie Team Member Application
And, if you are interested in mentoring our team, you can sign up here:
Mentor Application
Students may also get their registration finished with FIRST early.  You can do so here:   STIMS (Student FIRST Registration)  And Mentors can register with FIRST here:  Mentor Registration with FIRST

So, go get registering!