In the Georgia Dome Our friends, the FLL team "The Funky Monkeys", in the tunnels	On Davinci fields FVC 11-42-13 alliance, 11 & 42 in first heat	On Davinci fields First heat score
On Davinci fields FVC 11-42-13 alliance, 13 & 42 in second heat	On Davinci fields FVC 11-42-13 alliance, 13 & 42 in second heat	On Davinci fields "Johnny" righted after being flipped holding down ball on mobile goal
On Davinci fields FVC 11-42-13 alliance, opposition in second heat	In Georgia Dome Sharon Eagle teams supporting, lost heat	On Davinci fields FVC 11-42-13 alliance, 11 & 42 in third heat
On Davinci fields FVC 11-42-13 alliance, final score, lost heat & eliminated	In Georgia Dome Our teams gather up to return to pits	In pit area Our teams on the practice fields, mentors vs. teams
In pit area Teams meeting Radio Shack VP Joel Carter and Robot builder Grant Imahara	In pit area Grant Imahara, of Industrial Light and Magic and now MythBusters	In pit area Our teams on the practice fields, mentors vs. teams
In pit area FVC team 13 breaking down their pit area	In pit area Our friends, FLL team the Funky Monkeys, awards for Most Robust Robot & Gracious Professionalism	Near the pits Radio Shack Vex area; displays, challenge fields & lounge

After we congratulated our opponents, and thanked our alliance partners, we headed back to the pit area to have a scrimmage between the team and the adult coaching and support contingent on the practice field.  We also meet a number of folks from Radio Shack, including Joel Carter, the Vice President for Product Marketing.  He was very gracious, and discussed Radio Shack's commitment and enthusiasm for the Vex product and the FIRST relationship.  He also discussed (in broad terms) upcoming products for the Vex line, including the programming environment.  It is to be C-based, with a visual shell not dissimilar to the Mindstorms programming environment.  It will allow just the Visual environment, just the C environment, or the two side-by-side so you can watch the generation of C code from the visual tokens.  It sounds like lots of fun is on the way!

He also introduced us to Grant Imahara from Industrial Light and Magic (Lucas), and now a host on Myth Busters (Discovery Channel, a favorite show with my team).  He builds models and animatronics professionally, and drives both R2D2 and the Energizer Bunny.  He has competed on both BattleBots (Comedy Central) and Junkyard Wars (TLC).  As well as being incredibly skilled, he is a very gracious and friendly guy, and examined and drove our robots on the practice field as well as conversing with our teams.