Busy day.. It satrted with a 10 AM meeting in Shelburn with Rene Sanchezm the Superintendent of the Champlan Valley School District. Rene came up here from Texas where he was activly involved with FIRST robotics. He’s a huge fan of FIRST an is eager to help us build more teams in his district.. 

Our meeting was organized by CVU Students and former students.> Crawfor, a CVU grad and BETA  intern lead the meeting and his CVU freinds Clay And James  described the great success of FIRST at CVU.. They also talked about their outreach to nearby smiddle chools to help with FIRST lego league . It was super impressive to hear form him. 

Als there were Joe, our FIRST State Cordinator, Scott our State FIRST Mentor *who drove up from Rutland), Olaf, the FIRST coach at CVU , and me.

Superintendent Rene was very receptive and had soem great odeas on how we could work together with him. He’s helping us apply for a spot on the agenda of the VT meeting of Priincipals an Superintendents later on  in the spring He’s also goign to help introduce us to some potential industrial sponsors.. It was a great meetign with soem really good followups.. 

Kudos to Crawford, Clay and James for making this happen. And Depp thanks to Rene for being so receptive !

Work was really fuin and busy.. I got to demo my project to the rest of the team.. they seemed to like it.. whcih made me happy

At lunch we were all hanging around in the creative zone.. Clementine our mascot albino corn snake came out to play.. 

Sadly.. this turned out to be the last time.. 
more on that tomorrow
nite all, nite sam

-me