E-Systems Honors U.S. FIRST Participants
May 1994
E-Systems Communicator

Greenville Division engineers and students from Greenville High School and Dallas Christian, who had participated in the 1994 US FIRST competition, were honored at a festive dinner in April.  The dinner was held in the E-Systems Recreation Hall, which was decorated with silver mylar and red, white and blue balloons.

Harold Don Smith, vice president, engineering, acted as emcee.

Tony Norman, lead engineer on the project, showed a video of the action during the competition and during the trip to Nashua, N.H., where the competition was held.

Senior Vice President Brian Cullen received photos of the groups, which were presented by sponsors from the schools.

Tony presented the schools with replicas of the goals used in the competition.  In accepting for their schools, Principals Mike Barnes, of Dallas Christian and James Fuller, of Greenville High School, praised the engineers for their positive influence on the students, and the Greenville Division for its sponsorship of the program, which, it was later learned, is to be held at Disney World next year.

Vanessa Pope, teacher/sponsor from Greenville High School, credited the engineers with succeeding where she had failed to interest her students in engineering, which is often erroneously perceived as being dull.  Some who had previously shown no interest in the field, have decided to go into engineering, now that they know it can be fun.

Kathy Sorrells, teacher/sponsor from Dallas Christian, said, "In 15 years of teaching, I had not been able to generate the interest in engineering and scientific field of study like two years of association with E-Systems engineers.  The benefits are far-reaching.

Harold Smith presented each participant in the competition with a glass paperweight etched with U.S. First, E-Systems, Greenville High Schools and Dallas Christian logos.