Outstanding Volunteer: Geek at Heart
Dwight Lundberg, a retired systems programmer, has been a part of the FIRST Tech Challenge community out in Texas for almost five years. He found his niche volunteering as a scorekeeper and computer manager, going above and beyond the call of duty to help serve FTC events. As his friend Alan Borhorst notes, �Dwight is at the game first thing on Saturday morning and he helps get everything running smoothly. He is a careful scorekeeper and always has the score sheets prepared in advance. He stays the entire day and helps us tear down the field and load it back into the trailers and he also helps us put it back into storage. These are 18 or more hour days.� However, this dedication toward FTC and the student participants who join him at these events did not start off without doubts. Dwight recalls how, although he is �a professional technical person,� he had �no experience with robots� and �doubted his contribution would be valuable�. But as everyone finds when...