After having been involved for the first four years, we, Emma, Tom, and Becky, thought it important to document the things Team 1987 faced, overcame, and accomplished. Because we were at every meeting, volunteer event, presentation, build day, or competition event, we believe that our memories, combined with all the wonderful photographs taken by Lisa Smith (and others) should be shared. We chose to do so by writing this book.

It has 118 pages with around 520 photographs and it highlights each build season and the subsequent competition events. Also included are all the submitted documents that took us to the Championship in Atlanta three years in a row.

This book tells the story of what it takes to be a humble and very successful FIRST® team.

We did a bulk order through emails already. If you responded/paid, we have accounted for your order. So far, we ordered 24 books which should be here in a few weeks. If you didn’t respond to us and would like to buy one, you can buy one online. Here is the Blurb bookstore preview and order website: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/1030061/3d956800543b3f2a9fb4bf27e5daf8a8

We are very excited to finally publish this book. We have been working on it for many weeks. Going through pictures to choose the perfect shots as well as following our progress in words took hundreds of hours, and we feel it is a great representation of Team 1987’s first four years. If there are any questions about the book, please email: thand@kc.rr.com.

We hope you enjoy it. To see the first 15 pages of the book, go to the link above.

This is my last work as a Broncobot. It has been an honor since the start!!

On November 7th, the Broncobots competed in the 2nd Annual CowTown ThrowDown sponsored by Cerner and Team Driven where we went undefeated in the qualifying matches and landed the number one seed. We were head of the first alliance with Team 16, Bomb Squad from Mountain Home, Arkansas, and Team 2353, The Legion from Pembroke Hill School. After some very difficult matches, our alliance won the CowTown ThrowDown, losing only one match in the quarterfinal. Thank you to Team 16 and Team 2353 for being such great alliance partners!

We also had some volunteers at the event. Emma, Ken, my dad, and I all scored, while Denise and Scott worked on queuing and on the field. Annnddd M. Stephenson was with on Saturday!! This was the first time he was able to see us compete, so it was a pretty fun time!! Huge thanks to Lisa for the excellent pictures!!

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Sunset over Missouri River

To view all the pictures go TO THE PHOTOBUCKET ALBUM HERE

On September 11th, LSN held it’s annual Homecoming Parade. We decided to make our float patriotic themed.

Thank you to Mr. Reynolds for the awesome trailer (which he modified to hold our awesome banners) and Zach for the straw bales…I think that’s what they are called…

The 2010 season is quickly approaching!! Woo!

We got to give a presentation and talk to many employees at a local business. Thank you so much for having us, and we look forward to working more with you all.

Camp Slideshow!!!!!
Opens in Windows Media Player
http://teambroncobots.com/roboticscamp/campwmvzune.wmv