Good morning. I hear there are 50 teams here today. We've got teams here from New Hampshire. Where's New Hampshire?
We have teams from North Carolina. Virginia. We have teams from Pennsylvania. Connecticut. We have teams here from Maryland!
As a matter of fact, there are 24 teams here from Maryland. You know, I am really happy you are here. I know you've worked very, very hard for this.
What you're doing is super-important. You're marrying, you're taking your work like a sporting event and turning it into top-notch engineering.
That's critical. I own a steel factory 3 miles south of here. We compete with China. We compete with Mexico. We compete with Germany.
We compete with Japan. In China, they pay their guys thirty cents an hour. We pay our guys really well in Baltimore City.
How do we pay them well? Because we have twelve robots in our factory. Our factory. That's right. We have really smart people and they make wire baskets and wire forms
and we ship it all over the world - 22 countries. One of the countries we ship to is Taiwan. That is really neat, because it's made in Baltimore and then shipped all over the world.
The only way that we can do this is because we have smart people who are working great machines. That kind of aptitude, that kind of knowledge about how to take a machine,
innovate with that machine and grow a company and compete against China, even though they're really cheap in price, and compete against Mexico, even though they're really cheap in price,
is what this is all about. Because we're not going to beat them because we pay our workers really well, we're going to beat them because we're smarter. We're going to beat them because we're more clever. What you're doing here is critical so America grows, so America can thrive, so America can be prosperous. We're counting on you to go get jobs in companies like Marlin,
companies like Northrop, so we can beat China, so we can beat Taiwan, so we can beat Singapore, so we can beat Mexico, so we can beat France. It's the clever ideas that come from you that
will make us thrive in the future. We're counting on you. We appreciate what you're doing. What you're doing is really important. Thank you and I am looking forward to some serious fights today.
Good luck and let's get ready to rumble! Thank you very much Drew!
Drew Greenblatt welcomes 50 High School Robotic Teams
from New Hampshire to to North Carolina gathered to compete
in the first Robotics Competition held in Maryland.
