FIRST PowerKnights Team 501 Gets Power Boost from Local Business

September 12, 2007

Alan Ellis, Dynamic Network Services Customer Support Technician, Ed Forcier, Team 501 Faculty Advisor, Ian Helmke and Mallika Prabhakar, Team 501 Co-Captains, Jeremy Hitchcock, Dynamic Network Services CEO and Tom Daly, Dynamic Network Services President.

Manchester, NH - The Manchester High School West FIRST Robotics Team 501, the PowerKnights, today received a $10,000 sponsorship grant from networking leader and national rising star Dynamic Network Services Incorporated. The company, whose CEO Jeremy Hitchcock is a West High alum, believes there is a pressing need to expose high school students to the empowering aspects of engineering studies.

Programs such as FIRST inspire a broad range of students to study engineering in college by demonstrating practical applications of the field in a creative, positive fashion.

"We can't think of a better way to express the bond that exists between our company and our community," Hitchcock said. "Beyond our financial support, we volunteer our time as mentors, too. Hopefully, we can show the students that there is an exciting future waiting for them right here in Manchester."

While Dynamic Network Services Incorporated has been involved with the FIRST program at West and Memorial High Schools for several years, the company decided now was the time to further increase this commitment. The more students pursue higher education in math and science, the more opportunities for them to drive the technology revolution further ahead, boosting their careers and their region.

"This is not a commercial investment with immediate returns, but rather a long-term commitment to our thriving area. Only an active and creative community can bring positive change to its environment." Hitchcock said.

About FIRST

FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a unique varsity sport of the mind designed to help high-school-aged young people discover how interesting and rewarding the life of engineers and researchers can be.

About Dynamic Network Services Inc.

Founded in 1998, originally as a free DNS service for the Perl and open source communities, Dynamic Network Services Inc. (Dyn Inc.) has grown quietly and steadily to become one of the Internet's largest and most reliable providers of domain, zone and email solutions, through its innovative and well supported services. Still offering its signature free service, the company today plays a key role in keeping the Internet's DNS infrastructure at large running smoothly and stays faithful to its core values of engineering excellence. Additionally, Dyn Inc. also offers Dynect®, an enterprise class dynamic DNS offering.

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