Big Weekend #2

 Reed headed out last Wednesday night for Corpus Christi to compete at state with his group on their project Investing in the Digital Age. 

They had activities all day Thursday and then did their presentation Friday mid-morning competing against 38 teams from all over the state. 

 They told us that the top 8 would make the finals, and I really had no idea how they might place since they've never done this before.  I texted Reed to see how it went and he said they did "good."

 "Good." is the only answer I got. 

Not "Great!" or "Awesome"

 Just "Good."

 Luckily we had a mom on the ground to get us pictures, but she couldn't get any more than "good." out of them either.

So we were excited to hear about 8:00 Friday night that they were one of the 8 finalist and would be competing again early Saturday morning against "fierce" competition.  

Once again on Saturday morning they said they did "good." 

And when the results came out that evening I didn't know how to feel.

The top 3 state teams go on to nationals....and they came in 4th.  

It's absolutely amazing they came in 4th in the state, but also a gut punch that they were so close to nationals.  But needless to say, we are super proud and impressed with these guys! 

And Reed said he had "lots of fun".  (Which is still the only thing he's told me about the entire weekend.)