Back from DC

Well we're back from the Future City Competition in Washington DC. We didn't place in the top 5 this year though. We did however, win the Best Transportation System Special Award. Fitting being that we're from Michigan. I'm guessing that they may have a little thing going though that doesn't allow teams from the previous year who placed in the top 5 to place in the top 5 again. Because the winning team from last year was there again this year and also did not place in the top 5. At least that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

There is also the theory that Kris prayed too hard. He REALLY didn't want me to be gone for another week while I went to Space Camp. So we can blame him too that we didn't make the top 5. Our team did great though and they had a lot of fun. The boy, Jack, who was on the team is a 7th grader, so he'll be back next year. I'm pretty sure he had the whole idea in his head for next year already figured out before we touched down at metro.

There's always next year!!!

OH, and for my involvment with being a mentor for this Future City team, I will be receiving an award for "Mentor of the Year" at the ESD Gold Awards Banquet this Wednesday Feb. 27th, at the Rock Financial Show Place. ESD - Engineering Society of Detroit. The teacher from the team will also be getting the "Teacher of the Year" award. So the team gets to get together one last time. Well except the pizza party!

Google Famous

Have you ever tried Googling yourself just to see if and what comes up? Well I decided to do that because a radio station was having a competition that if you knew someone famous and called in you could get a gift cards some place. Well their definition of someone famous was that when their name was Googled something about them came up on the first page. So I Googled myself, and guess what the first article is ME!!!

I am a mentor for a middle school competition called Future City. Here in Michigan it is sponsored by the Engineering Society of Detroit and the National Competition is held in Washington DC during Engineer's Week in February. Well last year my team (then Helen Keller Middle School in Royal Oak) won the Michigan Competition so we got to go to Washington DC for the National competition. Our team ended up in 3rd place our of 38 teams that competed nationally. During the competition our team was interviewed and apparently I had a lot of cool things to say becasue they wrote an article with quotes from me.

I am continuing my mentoring duties at what is now Royal Oak Middle School (they combined the two middle schools this year). We have a good group of kids this year and it would be nice to bring home more medals and trophies.

So now when you're asked if you know a celebrity you can say Yes I know a Google Celebrity. :)