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DaimlerChrysler to Partner With Brightest High School Students

10 March 2000

DaimlerChrysler Corporation to Partner With Nation's Brightest High School Students in Robotics Competition March 9-11 at Eastern Michigan University

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich., March 9 Some of the nation's
brightest high school students face-off March 9-11 at Eastern Michigan
University in Ypsilanti as they compete in the FIRST (For Inspiration and
Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition's Great Lakes
Regional.  DaimlerChrysler will sponsor and team up with eight of the 67 teams
participating in this weekend's event, encouraging these students to pursue
careers in science and engineering.
    OSMTech Academy team member Cindy Hess, DaimlerChrysler Vice President
Corporate Quality, said, "It is exciting to be part of a program that
generates an interest in science and engineering among today's youth and
convinces them that science is not only rewarding and exciting, but also fun.
We share our know-how on product design with the students; the students apply
this to their design and add their ingredients of enthusiasm and creativity."
    The participating teams of ninth to twelfth grade students partner with
the region's top corporations and universities and test their intellects and
fertile imaginations by designing ball-throwing robots and compete with other
FIRST teams.
    FIRST is a non-profit organization that brings together an alliance of
business, education and government organizations through innovative programs
to inspire today's youth in the area of science, engineering and technology.
    DaimlerChrysler's eight teams will also compete in the 2000 FIRST Robotics
National Competition to be held at Disney World's EPCOT Center at Orlando, FL
in April.  The eleven high schools, comprising the eight DaimlerChrysler
teams, include:

    *  OSMTech Academy, Lake Orion, Mich.
    *  Avondale High School, Auburn Hills, Mich.
    *  Notre Dame Preparatory, Pontiac, Mich.
    *  Bob Jones High School, Athens, Ala.
    *  A Philip Randolph Career & Technical Center, Warren, Mich.
    *  Denby Technical & Preparatory, Warren, Mich.
    *  Fitzgerald High School, Warren, Mich.
    *  Breithapt Career & Technical Center, Detroit, Mich.
    *  Western High School, Russiaville, Ind.
    *  Detroit Finney High School, Detroit, Mich.
    *  Mehlville Senior High School, Manchester, Mo. (co-sponsoring with NASA
       Langley Research Center)