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Greetings from Atlanta!

We are now done with FIRST FTC competition, and the events of the last three days are just beginning to settle in. As Jon wrote last night, the team was selected by the 2nd seeded team, so we began quarter finals matches at 7:45 AM this morning! Our alliance (three teams competing together) won the first the first match, lost the second, but won the third to advance into the division finals. At this point the team is in the top 12 teams out of of over 1100 throughout the nation. The competition was fierce! Our alliance lost the next two matches, and so we ended up our season as division finalists - basically tied for third place along with one other alliance. The students did an incredible job, and kept a great attitude throughout the day. At the awards ceremony, we were excited to see our friends from 2 all-girls teams honored -Einstein's daughters (team 32) got a special judges award (the generations award), and rock-and-roll robotics (team 25) received the highest award fro the entire 2010 world competition - the inspire award. I have included a few photos from the day. Please pray for travel mercies for the families returning.