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Update: Just recieved 148's tote lifter. Now that definitely takes the cake for me.

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- 1993 FIRST Painters Cap I got at a HQ garage sale.
- 2003 Championship disposable camera, sealed in plastic, that I got off ebay.
- 2000 Volunteer Shirt. My first and my favorite (design-wise).

Runner up: Two Volunteer of the Year Awards? ;)

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I have always liked the shirts that had some kind of backstory as to how I got them so my 1114 is my favorite followed by a black 2016 971 shirt. For non apparel my favorite is a boulder from the Einstein field 1065s alliance played on.

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I've got shirts & robot parts from a few robots of ours and a few other teams.

The coolest FIRST item I have is an original copy of the 1996 Championship Elimination bracket. It is a cool piece of history seeing all of the old teams back when FIRST was just beginning.

I got it when 3467 was beginning a friend of our lead mentor was a mentor on the Salem HS team back in the day and he loved sharing old "artifacts" like these from his day in FRC.

One day I dream of it getting filled in but that probably won't happen.

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My FRC1730 team shirt from our tenth year signed by Woody at Missouri regional. I put it away and will not wash it or wear it.

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Apparel: The red construction hat with "PANIC MODE" written on the side of it I wore at Indiana FTC state champs 2014 (I was a driver, we were the finalist alliance captian, fun times)

Non-Apparel: An omni wheel I busted while building the robot that year

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Easy!

As part of my senior capstone design project at Kettering University, I was permitted to use a mecanum-wheeled drivetrain that 862 had lying around.
(It was originally the base of our 2008 FIRST Overdrive robot, "Thor", which had long since been harvested for parts; there's talk of restoring that one next, after we finish our current project of refurbishing our '09 bot.)

Anyways, here's what it looks like now:



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For me it's not physical at all. To me, the crown jewel are the countless memories from being a student on 166. Physical items will be lost along the way eventually but memories will never be forgotten.

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Crown Jewel is my hat from being an alliance captain at Championship this past year. One of 64 hats in the world, from the last ever single championship.

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Mine is probably cheating a little bit, buts it's my tee-shirt quilt that I made a few years back. Every shirt has a story/memory attached and it's lived in a few different places with me now.

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Apparel:

A shirt a friend made for the team I previously mentored.

Non-Apparel:

My mentor's old leatherman his family gave me.

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Shirt wise, My old 1747 shirts are up there, as are my 2015/2016 Champs and IRI shirts (all of which I was scorekeeping). The "most valuable" would be one of omy 1747 shirts and my old 2783 jersey, which both are woodie flowers autographed (but they sit in a closet, the other ones get worn now and then).

Otherwise, I think more of my personal stuff became property of teams than the other way around, so don't have much. Most of my handiwork and the like became final assembly parts, and thus are either on old bots in storage or scrapped. I guess that's a good thing?

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either my 3D printed pin from our parent team 3840 (TNT robotics) or the broken rhino drive wheel that I posted on CD to call andymarks attention to its critical mechanical breakdown

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I own t-shirts from 1816, 2175, and 2052. All three have played prominent roles in shaping how 4607 operates - and we have the utmost respect for these teams.

This tee-shirt collecting gets kind of addicting, doesn't it?

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Favorite FRC item is definitely my IRI phone charger.

My dean's list backpack is also a close second.

In terms of apparel only I personally quite enjoy my 1477 shirt (its just so clean). My bomb squad shirt, IRI shirts, Champs volunteer shirts, and 254 sweatshirt are all up there as well.

Now if I can just convince someone to let me trade or buy a 1678 shirt ;).