Super busy and fun day !.. Diane and started with a quick early morning hike  up to duxbury window. 

 

Gabe called this morning which is also fun.. he’s planning his trip back for friend Jack’s wedding

 

then busy day at work.. Around 4 we started getting ready for our big ‘end of season’ celebration for FIRST robotics. Ray. Joe, Mark and I planned the event which was hosted at beta. We had a great crowd of FIRST team members, Mentors and Coaches and a bunch of prospective sponsors from industry and government.  We had tons of Pizza and drinks for everyone.  Joe and Mark lead the presentation about stats for the growth of FIRST in Vermont and then we heard from the student competitors.  We then helped the sponsors see how they could get involved.   Once the talking was over, we all wend down to the hanger to see robots at all level of FIRST .. It was really, really fun !.. Thanks to BEAT for making this possible.> And thanks particularly to Rayan and Joe for organizing such a great event !

 

So fun !.. I had to leave a bit  early because I had another event. It was an engagement party for Hannah and Jotir. at Kathy and Lou’s house. It was so great seeing Hannah and Meeting Jotir. Hannahs brother August was there too.. as were many old friends we don’t see very often.

 

It was really a nice way to end the day !

 

Nite all, nte sam

-me

 

Today my friend Jeff T came in to check out BETA. He’s retiring from teaching and would like to see about working here. He’s a great engineering design teacher at CVU. What was so cool is to see how many of his students already work at BETA !

 

We had a lovely dinner at Debs .. We love hanging out with her !

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Today Max and Becky sent us pictures of the rest of their trip to Portugal. It looks like they saw some  cool stuff and had a great trip ! I’m really glad they took the time to hang out a little more there. 

 

 

Later in the evening Diane and I went over to Gizzo and Lauras for a nice dinner and some  Fluffy the bus talk.

 

How did I not get pictures of Gizzo and Laura… ?!? It was really nice hanging out with them !

nite all, nite sam

-me

We had a really good time with Steve and Austin today. The smoke from the Canadian fires made the air really hazy.. but beautiful in a scary way

 

Austin is so interested in everything !.. Very fun to hang out with him !

In the evening I took Steve and Austin on a tour of Beta. (Steve has been in the Army his whole career and does logistics.. so he loved Beta. Austin loved everything about. Best of all were the racing drones practicing on the third floor..

 

At the end of the tour Austin asked me.. What kind of college do I need to go to so I can work here. ?!.. 
Thats such a great thing to hear !

nite all, nite sam

-me