To: Tom Stephens, Ken Cole and the

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To Tom Stephens, Ken Cole and the GM
LeadershipFrom Your GM Sponsored FIRST
Robotics Competition Teams
Thank You for your continued support as we begin
the 2010 Season Happy Holidays to You and Yours

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Team 51 - Pontiac High School - Wings of Fire

• Introducing the new Pontiac team formed by the
  merger of veteran Pontiac teams 47 Chief Delphi
  and 65 Huskie Brigade!
• 25 students from Pontiac High School
• Continuing Sponsors GM Powertrain, Delphi,
  Chrysler Foundation
• We look forward to building on our 14 year
  history of successes on and off the field.
• 2009 Accomplishments
• OCCRA Foundation Award Winner
• OCCRA Championship Alliance
• Michigan State Championship Alliance
• Kettering District Finalist
• GM Industrial Design Award
• Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Tech Award

Fall 2009 OCCRA Champs!
Our new color is PURPLE!
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About Team 66 Name Willow Run Robotics Team
66 Inaugural Year 1998 School Willow Run
HS Sponsors General Motors, Zingermans Deli,
Willow Run Community Schools, Washtenaw Community
College 2010 Michigan Districts Events
Traverse City, Ann Arbor
History Chairman Awards 2006 - Great Lakes
Regional 2007 - Buckeye Regional 2009 - Wayne
State District Regional Championship 2004 -
Great Lakes Regional 2005 - Great Lakes
Regional 2005 - West Michigan Regional District
Champion 2009 - Wayne State District Regional
Finalist 2008 - Great Lakes Regional General
Motors Team of the Year 2007 - World
Championships World Champion 2002 Newton
Division Champion 2002 World Champion
2009 Season in Review Kettering University
District Quarterfinalist Wayne State District
Champion Wayne State District Safety Award
Winner Wayne State District Chairmans
Winner State Championship Quarterfinalist
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1997 Championship Rookie All-Star9 Time Regional
Champions3 Time District Champions2009 Michigan
State Champions2005 2009 World Champions50
Students on the 2010 TeamFIRST LEGO League
Support Since 19986 Student Alumni Now GM
Engineers
FIRST Hall Of Fame Team 67 Heroes Of
Tomorrow GM Milford Proving Ground Huron
Valley Schools
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• Team 70 More Martians
• Goodrich High School

• FIRST Accomplishments
• 2009 FIRST Robotics Kettering District
  Competition Winner
• Kettering District GM Industrial Design Award
• Lansing District Rockwell Automation Innovation
  in Design Award
• Lansing District Safety Award

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Cosmos team 123
Hamtramck High School Hamtramck, Michigan

• Points of Pride
• KPCB Entrepreneurship Award - 2003
• Regional Finalist - 2005
• GM Industrial Design Award 2006
• JJ Sportsmanship Award 2007
• Detroit Regional Champion 2007
• Pittsburgh Regional Champion -2007
• GM Industrial Design Award - 2009

Share our Similarities and Celebrate our
Differences
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FEDS Team 201Rochester High School Robotics

• Corporate sponsor GM Finance
• Team formed in 1998
• 44 students on the 2009/10 team

• FEDS 201 2009 FIRST season accomplishments
• Detroit District Competition Semi-finalist
• Traverse City District Competition Semi-finalist
• Michigan State Championship Semi-finalist
• Archimedes Division Quarter-finalist
• Motorola Quality Award
• Website Award for FEDS201.net

2009 FIRST Robot
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Hammerheads Team 226 Troy Athens High School
Robotics

• Corporate Sponsor GM CCRW Since 1999

• 2009 FIRST season accomplishments
• Wayne State District Semi-Finalist
• Wayne State District Judges Award
• Wayne State Website Award
• Troy District Quarter-Finalist
• Troy District Judges Award
• Michigan State Championship Quarter-Finalist
• Michigan State Championship Website Award for
  Hammerhead226.org

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AdamBots Team 245 Rochester Adams Stoney Creek
HS Robotics

• Corporate sponsor GM Finance
• Team formed in 1999
• Competes in both OCCRA and FIRST
• 44 students on the 2009/10 team

• AdamBots 2009 FIRST season accomplishments
• Kettering District champions
• Michigan Advanced Robotics Competition champions
• Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition champions
• Curie Division semi-finalist at FIRST Atlanta
  Championship
• Michigan State Championship semi-finalist
• Lansing District finalist
• WWJ Radio FIRST Teacher of the Year award
• Motorola Quality Award
• Website Award for AdamBots.com

2009 FIRST Robot
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Megatron Oracles ( Big MO) 314 Carman-Ainsworth
High School Robotics

• Corporate sponsor GM
• Team formed in 1999
• 21 students on the 2009/10 team

2009

• Big MO 2009 FIRST Season Accomplishments
• Co-Sponsored and ran three successful FLL
  Tournaments
• Participated in two District Regional's
• Kettering and Traverse City
• Participated in Archimedes Division at FIRST
  Atlanta Championship
• Renovated and moved into the High School
  Woodshop (Now Robotics Room) from the Middle
  School Woodshop

2009 FIRST Robot
Big Mo Web Site www.314megatronoracles.com
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Xtreme Eagles Team 326 Romulus High School
Robotics

• Corporate sponsor GM
• Team formed in 1999
• 25 students on the 2009/10 team

• Xtreme Eagle 2009 FIRST Season accomplishments
• Troy District Semi Finalist
• Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award
• Cass Tech District Finalist
• Michigan State Championship Quarter Finalist
• Kettering Kickoff Event Winner

2009 FIRST Robot
Think It! Design It! Build It!
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THE SUSPECTS
DETROIT CODY HIGH
TEAM 440

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• 2009 MICHIGAN STATE REGIONAL ENGINEERING
  INSPIRATION AWARD
• 2009 DETROIT QUARTER-FINALIST
• 2009 WAYNE STATE REGIONAL ENGINEERING
  INSPIRATION AWARD
• 2009 DETROIT NOMINEE FOR WOODIE FLOWERS AWARD
• 2008 DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMPION
• 2008 JUDGES AWARD
• 2008 BAYOU REGIONAL CHAMPION
• 2008 MENTORING NEW FIRST TEAMS

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? O Robotics Team 470 Ypsilanti High
School General Motors

• Team formed in 2000
• Celebrated 10th Year in 2009
• Engineering Inspiration
• Two time winner
• Johnson Johnson Sportsmanship Award
• Semifinalist-Lansing 2009

Community Service/Awareness

• Ypsilanti Heritage Festival Robotics Tent
• Ann Arbor Makers Fair
• Ypsi Pride Day cleanup Hope Clinic
• GST Boyscouts MIS Camporee Robotics
  Demo/Activity
• EMU Theatre- Into the Woods Robot Milky
  White
• School and Youth Group Demonstrations

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• Team 494 The Martians
• Goodrich High School

• FIRST Accomplishments
• 2003 / 2004 Back-to-back Championship
  Sportsmanship
• Award Winner
• 2004 World Championship Winner
• Championship Motorola Quality Award
• 2006 General Motors Team of the Year Award
• Championship General Motors Industrial Design
  Award

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Excellence Through Endurance
Team 515 Celebrating 9 Years with GM CCRW
2010 Cass Tech District Competition Detroit
District Competition 2009


Cass Tech Regional Semi Finalist Detroit
Regional Winners Michigan State Championships
Participant 2006 Team Spirit Award Driving
Tomorrows Technology Award
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Robomasters Team 519Golightly Career
Technical Center RoboticsCorporate Sponsors
General Motors Foundation, CCRW, Harvey
Industries, ITT Technical InstituteTeam formed
in 2000 Rookie year 2001

• Accomplishments
• Introduced Murray Wright High School to First
  in 2000
• Recipient of the Sprit of Detroit Award in 2001
• Recipient of the Congressional Academic
  Excellence Award 2002
• Selected by the Delphi Corporation to represent
  FIRST at the Rain Bow Push Coalition
  Automotive Symposium in 2003
• Selected by FIRST to present the Robotics
  program to the Detroit Public School Board at
  Pershing High School in 2004
• Presented First Robotics at NAACP convention in
  Detroit in 2007

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Robostangs Team 548 Northville High
School RoboticsCorporate Sponsor GM Since
200755 Students in 2010 Season

• 2009 FIRST season accomplishments
• Team Competed in 5 Tournaments
• Kettering
• Quarter finalist Design Award Winner
• Western MI
• Design Award Winner
• Detroit
• Semi Finalist Design Award Winner
• Michigan Championship
• Finalist, Design Award Winner, Web Site Award
  Winner
• Atlanta National Championship

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WARRIORS TEAM 704 South Grand Prairie HS
Corporate Sponsor GM Arlington Assembly Team
Formed in 2001 20 Students on 2009/2010 team
2009 FIRST Robotics Accomplishments Dallas
Regional Quarter-Finalist GM Industrial Design
AwardDallas Regional Winner Lone Star
Regional Motorola Quality Award Lone Star
Regional FIRST World Championship Participant
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Team 772 Sabre Bytes Robotics
Sandwich Secondary School

• Team Accomplishments
• 4 time Winners of the UL Safety Award
• 3 time Winners of the Kleiner Perkins Caufield
  and Byers Entrepreneurship award
• 2 time Winners of the Motorola Quality Award
• Finger Lakes Regional Website Design award
• Finalist in the Triple Play in Rochester

Sponsor GM Team Formed 2001 Team of 2009/10
27 Students
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Midnight Mechanics Team 812

• Preuss School Robotics

, CA

• Corporate sponsor?
• Team formed in 2001
• 40 students on the 2009/10 team

• 2009 FRC Season Accomplishments
• Engineering Inspiration Award
• San Diego
• Arizona
• Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award
• San Diego Regional Semifinalist
• Arizona Regional Quarter Finalist
• FLL Tournament host
• Presidents Circle

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Chargers Robotics Team 894
General Motors Foundation/Phillips Welding and
Powers Catholic High School (Flint, MI)

• Established 2002
• Attended Championships 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009
• 2003 Great Lakes Regional Xerox Creativity Award
• 2005 Great Lakes Regional Woodie Flowers
  Regional Award
• 2009 Lansing District Competition Delphi
  Driving Tomorrow's Technology Award
• Plans for 2010 Kettering District Competition
  and Ann Arbor District Competition

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RoboTroopers Team 903 Southwestern/Chadsey High
School Robotics

• Corporate sponsor GM
• Team formed in 2002
• 15 students on the 2009/10 team

• RoboTroopers FIRST accomplishments
• 2009 Detroit FIRST Robotics District
• Imagery Award
• 2007 Detroit Regional
• Judges Award
• Regional Champion
• 2005 Midwest Regional
• Judges Award
• Regional Finalist

2009 FIRST Robot
RoboTroopers
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D Cubed Team 904 Creston High School Robotics

• Corporate sponsor GM
• Team formed in 2002
• 30 students on the 2009/10 team

• D Cubed 2009 FIRST Season accomplishments
• Traverse City District Finalist
• Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award
• West Michigan District Finalist
• Chrysler Team Spirit Award
• State Championship Finalist
• West Michigan Regional Invitational Champion
• Safety Award

D Cubed Dedication x Desire x Determination
Success
2009 FIRST Robot
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Team 1114 - SimboticsGeneral Motors St.
Catharines Powertrain Governor Simcoe Secondary
SchoolSt. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

• Since 2004
• 11 Regional Championships
• 3 Regional Chairmans Awards
• 3 Woodie Flowers Finalist Award Winners
• 1 World Championship

• 26 increase in school enrollment since creation
  of the team
• 80 of team alumni pursue post secondary
  education in science and technology
• 11 FIRST alumni have interned at the GM St.
  Catharines Powertrain plant

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Team 1189 The GearheadsGrosse Pointe North and
South High Schools (Grosse Pointe, MI)Corporate
sponsor GM Research and Development

• 2009 Achievements
• Wayne State District Quarterfinalist
• Wayne State District Gracious Professionalism
  Award
• Attended the Michigan State Championship
• Collected hundreds of gently used school supplies
  from local middle and high schools and donated
  them to a Detroit public school (Spring/Summer).
  This project was entirely student-led and
  executed.

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Team Hansen Experience Of Robotic Youth6

• 40 Students
• Rookie All-Star (2004)
• Rookie Inspiration Award (2004) (World
  Championships)
• Waterloo Regional Champions (2005)
• Chairmans Award (2005)
• GM Industrial Design (2006)
• Southern Ontario VEX Champions (2009)

General Motors Rick Hansen Secondary School
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Team 1322 G.R.A.Y.T. Leviathons

• Accomplishments
• Mentor State Award-Winning LEGO team White
  Wolves
• Cooked over 800 meals a month for the homeless
• Helped establish and run Kettering Kickoff
• Bowl-a-thon to help handicapped
• Founding member of MMRA
• Helped with District Events
• Form team for Relay for Life
• Raise over 1,200 for Katrina
• Demonstrations for the public
• Website Excellence Award
• Five successful build seasons
• Xerox Creativity Award
• 100 higher education
• Mentor rookie teams
• Autistic Walk

(http//www.team1322.org)
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Five consecutive years of FRC Awards The City of
Vancouvers Youth Group of the
Year Representing FIRST in Western Canada since
2003
www.trobotics.ca
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TEAM 1482 Bishop Grandin High School Calgary
Alberta

• Winner of 2009 Regional Woodie Flowers
• Strong Mentorship Program
• Only team in Alberta
• Established 2004
• 250 students
• 90 Teachers Mentors
• Countless Friendships

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• General Motors Team 1503 (Est 2005)

• Quarter-finalist, 2009 Finger Lakes Regional
• Semi-finalist, 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
• 2nd Seed Overall, Archimedes Division, 2009
  Championship
• Semi-Finalist, Archimedes Division, 2009
  Championship
• Historical 3 Regional Wins, 2 Regional
  Finalists, and
  Rookie All-Star

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create engineer inspire

• Founded in 2005
• Reaching out to students across three counties
• Genesee County
• Beecher High School
• Flint Powers HS
• Grand Blanc HS
• Hamady High
• Home School Student
• Macomb County
• Chippewa Valley HS
• Oakland County
• Oakland Christian HS
• Lake Orion HS
• Notre Dame Prep HS
• Stoney Creek HS
• Home School Student

• Accomplishments
• 2005 Detroit Rookie All-Star Award
• 2006 Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, Byers
  Entrepreneurship Award
• 2006 Detroit Regional Winner
• 2008 Xerox Creativity Award
• 2009 Traverse City District Judges Award

http//www.metalmuscle.org
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Team 1547
Est. 2004
Where's Waldo?
Trafalgar Castle School, Whitby, Ontario, Canada
We are a team of 28 girls, supported by 10
mentors and teachers

• With General Motors of Canadas support
• Wheres Waldo? has affected much change at
  Trafalgar Castle School
• Construction of the Design and Technology
• Classroom
• Establishing the Computer Engineering class
• Creation of 3 all girl FLL teams
• More graduates pursue Engineering in Post
• Secondary Education

we share our experiences on local and
international media CNN, Discovery Channel, CTV,
CBC, TVO, YTV, iChannel, Whitby this Week, the
Oshawa Express, KX96, Castle Pulse
our hard work has been recognized by FIRST
Engineering Inspiration Award at the 2009 Finger
Lakes Regional Regional Chairmans Award at the
2008 Greater Toronto Regional Engineering
Inspiration Award at the 2006 BAE Granite State
Regional Rookie Inspiration at the 2005 World
Championship
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without
it nothing great was ever achieved. Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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• Rookie Year 2005 Won Highest Rookie Award
• Over 100 high school students out of which 54
  from Kalamazoo Area Math Science Center drawn
  from 6 home schools in Kzoo County
• Over 40 undergraduate engineering students from 3
  disciplines (IME, ECE CS) as team mentors
  completed 4 Senior Design Projects and 3 semester
  projects
• Over 90 of Teams high school students attending
  top engineering schools UofM, Ohio University,
  MIT, CMU, WMU MSU
• Team website www.quantumninjas.com
• Won Finalist Trophy at West Michigan Regional in
  2008 during the Championship round

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The RoboDogs Team 1998

• Team formed 2007
• Finished 36th in State of Michigan, 2009
• New for 2009 Three-trimester robotics class (for
  credit) led by engineering mentors, teachers

Thank you, GM, for making our 2010 season a
reality!
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Panteras
Team 2283
Universidad Panamericana Highschool/Centro
Escolar Cedros

• Formed in 2007
• 25 students
• 10 mentors

2007 FRC Detroit Regional Rookie All-Star
Atlanta World Championship Rookie
All-Star 2008 FTC Atlanta World Championsip
Inspire Award 2009 FRC Dallas Regional
Engineering Inspiration Award
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EngiNERDs Team 2337Grand Blanc High School

• Corporate Sponsor GM since 2008
• Team Started in 2008
• 32 Students Inspired in 2009

• 2009 Season Accomplishments
• Kettering University District
• Semi-finalist
• Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award
• Michigan State Championship
• Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award

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RedTails Team 2591Davis Aerospace Technical
High SchoolDetroit Public Schools

• 2009-2010 Corporate sponsors
• GM Foundation, BAE Systems, Boeing Corporation,
  PTC
• Team formed in 2008
• 24 students on the 2009/10 team

• Red Tails Rookie Year 2008 FIRST
  accomplishments
• Kettering Rookie Competition Spirit Award
• Ypsilanti Regional Rookie All-Star Award
• FIRST Atlanta Championship, Newton Division
  Rookie High Seed Award.
• Red Tails 2009 participation
• Detroit District Competition
• Troy District Competition

2009 FIRST Robot
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Team 2612-The Syntax Errors

• Great Lakes Regional 2008
• Top Seeded Rookie Team
• Qualified for the State Championship 2009
• 17 Members

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Team 2617-Lansing Sexton

• The J.W. Sexton Robo Reds Graduated 6 members in
  2009. They are proudly representing our team in
  the following places
• 2-Lansing Comm. College
• 2-University of Michigan
• 2-Enlisted in the Marines

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Address 760 Weber St. E.Kitchener , ON N2H 1H6
Eastwood Collegiate Institute
Namesake Sponsor General Motors
Awards

• Rookie All Star Award
• Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award

REBotics 2009 FIRST Season Achievements

• Raised 32,000 in funding through various
  fundraising initiatives
• Designed and built a functioning robot in the
  specified 6 week time
• frame
• Engaged 16 members
• 4 members graduated and entered university
  engineering programs
• Showcased at
• Discovery 09 presented by OCE
• WRDSB Trade Show - June 2009
• CMTS October 2009
• Competed in University of Waterloo Regional
  Competition
• Qualified for FRC National Competition 2009

Spreading Interest
The REBotics program has a goal to inspire youth
and promote technology. Presentations were made
to Sunnyside Public School and Suddaby Public
School students by REBotics team members.
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Code Red Robotics 2771
Rookie Year 2008-2009. Students from 6
different High Schools. 100 of our graduates
are enrolled in college.

FIRST Robotics District Competition
Quarterfinalist Traverse City
FIRST Robotics State Competition Rookie
All-Star State of Michigan Championship
FIRST Robotics World Competition 4th Alliance
Captain Newton Division
FIRST Robotics District Competition ROOKIE
ALL-STAR Traverse City
Building Robots to Build Better People
FIRST Robotics World Competition
Quarterfinalist Newton Division
FIRST Robotics District Competition Highest
Rookie Seed Award Kettering
FIRST Robotics State Competition Chrysler Team
Spirit Award State of Michigan Championship
FIRST Robotics District Competition Chrysler Team
Spirit Award Kettering
FIRST Robotics District Competition Rookie
All-Star West Michigan
FIRST Robotics World Competition Highest Rookie
Seed Newton Division
FIRST Robotics District Competition ROOKIE
ALL-STAR Kettering
FIRST Robotics District Competition District
Finalist Kettering
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DM High Voltage
Denis Morris Catholic High School Robotics St.
Catharines, Ontario Canada

• Corporate Sponsor
• General Motors Powertrain
• Team Formed in September 2008
• 21 students on the 2009 team

• FIRST 2009 Season Accomplishments
• Greater Toronto Regional
• Highest Rookie Seed Award
• Rookie Inspirational Award

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Highlanders Team 3096Detroit Finney High School
Robotics

• Sponsors GM Detroit Public Schools
  Lardner Elevator Company
• Team formed in 2009 on a FIRST Strategic Rookie
  Team (SRT) Grant provided by BAE Systems
• 15 students are on the 2009/10 team

• Highlander 2009 FIRST season accomplishments
• Michigan Advanced Robotics Competition Finalist
• 2009 FIRST Dartfish Software Evaluation Team
• Developed a foundation to become a sustainable
  team
• www.finneyrobotics.org

2009 FIRST Robot
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Thank You !
We look forward to seeing you at the competitions
in the New Year. Happy Holidays, The GM
Sponsored FIRST Teams