After work, I had a meeting up in Montpelier this late afternoon. The organization. FIRSTinVT I’m part of got a renewal of an incredibly generous grant from the Argosy foundation to help further spread first robotics challenge across Vermont. I’m happy to say that we are going to be having a team starting in Montpelier. It will be a combination of Montpelier high school’ and U38 High school and we’ll meet on the campus of the brand new Greenway University, which is going to the old Vermont college buildings in Montpelier. Greenway is starting up a maker based undergraduate program very much like old in college. The head of Greenway is my friend Mark Somerville, who is a founding member of Owen. It’s going to be all projects with a sustainability mindset. It looks possible that. the first robotics teams are going to be able to meet there and build the robots there and have Greenway students as informal mentors. I’m super excited. At one part of the meeting, I realize that one of the first coaches Ruben is actually my friend Russ’s son!

A small world Vermont thing.

 

Afterwards Diane and I met in Waterbury is a surprise to join gizmo’s birthday party… So we had a wonderful dinner with gizmo and Lauren and then went back to their house for cake. It was great to be there for gizmo’s birthday. He’s such an amazing person… 

Happy birthday GIzzo.. we’re glad you were born !
nite all, nite sam
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