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Sarasota News Leader March 1, 2013 Page 79 ���This young lady ��� realized it wasn���t about just building a robot, it was about building an organization,��� Straw said. ���This young lady did it. The kids themselves put it together and raised the money.��� SAMA, through Straw, was instrumental in the early stages of the teams��� work. He also was the one who introduced the students who wanted to start a FIRST chapter to representatives of the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce and companies such as Sun Hydraulics. ���The teams they compete against have sponsors like Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin.��� Straw said. ���Yet, last year, we went to Nationals,��� he pointed out. Go Sarasota. Go Jungle Robotics. % Sarasota County School Board member Caroline Zucker and her husband, Mike, come to a team meeting to see the robot in action. Photo by Scott Proffitt Peter Straw and Laura O���Connell/Photo by Scott Proffitt