04/17/2007
API, along with other industry societes participating with PIPE,
sponsored the 2007 BLaST competition. The event was held at J. D.
Meisler school in Metairie. The competition consisted of teamwork
presentation, design presentation, research presentation and actual
robot challenge. It was amazing to see these 9-14 year olds spend
their Saturday like this! The entire event, including the oil
industry keynote speech, was videoed. You will be able to view the
video at lafll.org
once it is posted. Art Johnson did a great job of conveying the
message we wanted to get across - the oil industry is a great place
to work, great for the community, and great for the economy. And
Mike Fein rallied the crowd with Tshirt give aways! Hopefully some
individuals were enlightened of possible career opportunities
within the oil industry! The banners BLaST prepared for its sponsors were in full display
and will also be displayed at the Regional competition in March.
All of our logos were on the Volunteer shirts and our names were on
the ditty bags. I want to especially thank those that participated in the event
- volunteers, referees and judges. The BLaST organization is still
sending accolades our way. Hopefully, not leaving anyone out, (if I
have please let me know), thanks to: members of Desk & Derrick: > Patricia Netherland >
Shelly Gisevius > Johanna Lae > Mary Beth Brinkman > Karen
Ohlsson & daughter Theresa Ohlsson > Lisa Ingraham - who did
an awesome of emceeing the entire competition! COPAS Tom Hays - Judge Barbara Giangrosso - Referee NOGS - Art Johnson and Mike Fein - great job on the speech and
keeping up the crowds enthusiasm! SPE/Schlumberger - Walt Navoy - judge Schlumberger - Eddie Lazo API - Bernadette Alaniz - judge, Tom Jones - referee API/SPE - Jan Catalano API/Shell - Jahnette deBlanc
OCSBBS - Ben WaringImages from 2007 BLaST Robotics Competition
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New Orleans, LA 70150