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aviatrix
12-01-2016, 00:21
I am just creating this thread to re-assimilate. Holy magic smoke! I have been in the toddler and early kiddo years for a little too long. I feel like a local, but I don't speak the lingo any more. Who's out there that have been around for more than 10 years? Give me a shout out. I learned about and signed up for github and stack-flow accounts today. I have been on the lego planet for far too long.
aviatrix
12-01-2016, 00:24
BTW, this is Mary Beth Prendergast, formerly with FRC Team 692, the Fembots from St. Francis High School, and FRC Team 1097, Site 3 Engineering from Jesuit High School.
Taylor
12-01-2016, 08:58
This is my eleventh full season with the team.
cadandcookies
12-01-2016, 10:13
Haven't been around quite that long (six seasons of FRC here), but welcome back to the FRC fold!
vhcook
12-01-2016, 10:15
Welcome back! This is season 11 for me.
MrForbes
12-01-2016, 10:19
Season 11 here too. We've played with the FemBots years ago, and also played underwater robots with Site 3 at NURC in Chandler.

Welcome back!
Basel A
12-01-2016, 10:26
Sounds like you're trying to feel old, so I'll let you know this is my 8th season in FRC, yet I've never been to a regional (only district events and championships).
Jay H 237
12-01-2016, 18:25
This will be season 17 for me! :yikes:
smurfgirl
12-01-2016, 18:33
This is my eleventh season and I still feel pretty young.
waialua359
12-01-2016, 18:35
This is my eleventh season and I still feel pretty young.

That's because you are!:)
Koko Ed
12-01-2016, 18:39
This is my 15th season of FIRST.
Trying to Help
12-01-2016, 18:54
I think this is my ninth season; it all kinds of blurs together at some point. Welcome back!
DonRotolo
12-01-2016, 22:26
Season 12 here, 1st with a different team.
ebarker
12-01-2016, 23:28
Season 11 in progress..............
Tristan Lall
13-01-2016, 04:36
18th. That was a surprise to me too.
Wayne Doenges
13-01-2016, 05:11
16 years.
Thanks, now you're making me feel old :D
Al Skierkiewicz
13-01-2016, 07:21
When I started, 111 was not a permanent number, we used Motorola radios and drill batteries and there were not any alliances. For the mentor parade, I just wait until everyone has walked past and get in the end of the line. This is season 21 for me, my wife and two other WildStang mentors.
D_Price
13-01-2016, 07:24
Hey everyone this is my 12th season with Team 1708 out of McKeesport, Pa. I wouldn't another season for the world. We just aged well. Not such thing as old haha.
JohnBoucher
13-01-2016, 08:18
In one role or another 17 robots old.
pfreivald
13-01-2016, 08:33
My first seasons were 2001 and 2002 as the founder and lead mentor of 827 (sadly now defunct) in Fremont, CA; I moved back from California and had a hiatus until 2005 (while raising the funds/interest to form 1551) and have been doing it ever since.

So...eleven with 1551, two with 827. That's either thirteen or fifteen years, depending on whether or not you count the years of establishing 1551 as "being involved," which I wouldn't.

Either way, it's been a minute or three. :D