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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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Sunday
Mar292009

FIRST Robotics

DateSunday, March 29, 2009 at 08:47PM

Did you know that there are high school robotics competitions? I had no idea. Shouldn't surprise me really. Course, I wasn't expecting the colored mohawks or the co-ed team dressed entirely in pink. :) What am I talking about? FIRST Robotics, of course. Through various lego-related channels, we learned of this little tournament going on in Denver this past weekend and made it down in time to see the last few rounds. The boys thought it was pretty dang cool and were sad we didn't see more:

It was kinda crazy till we figured out what the objectives were (asked the guy sitting behind us in the bleachers). If you've ever seen the tv show "Robotica" you'll understand why the boys thought this was cool.

In any case, that's what we did on Saturday. Well, that and have ourselves some little snowball fights and call to wish my baby brother a happy birthday. :) He's 26 now. Sigh. Just yesterday he was like ten.

AuthorAmanda | Comment1 Comment |

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Justin probably would have thought this was pretty cool too! He is always taking us down to his office to show us robots he is working on.

March 30, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterkaitlin

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