Some more history:
1994 Champions : P&G and WHHS (modern team 144)
1996 Chairman's & Autodesk: P&G and WHHS
1998:
Team 144 went to a new school, Northwest High,
and thanks to great alliance partners:
2001 National Finalists
2002 Division Champs & National Semi-Finals
2003:
Spun off new team #1038, Lakota East High School

We (1038) have the same mentors from P&G that have been in it since 1994.

The original powerhouses...
 

With his last post, iheartlinux outlined one heck of a team. Most people remember Sunny Delight from the Tower Power video and beyond. Back when I first started, they were the team to beat. I've always called them the original powerhouse team. Which brings up another question...who would you consider to be the original powerhouse teams in FIRST?

Re: The original powerhouses...
 

The Technokats.
Chairman's award winner, national champion and a founding team.
ANyone else in FIRST who can match their resume?

Re: Re: The original powerhouses...
 

Thanks, Ed... but to clarify:

National champ, yes
Founding team, yes
Chairman's Award Winner - Regional only (Midwest, 2002)

We were close to the Chairman's Award in '95, but did not get it.

Andy B.

Re: Re: Re: The original powerhouses...
 

Hmmmm. I thought I had read somewhere you guys had won a Chairman's award. Ah well....

What a help!
 

Guys, a LOT of information can be found on this true internet gem:

Internet Time Machine

The best links are the 98-99 ones, which contain info from the 1992 competition and on. :)

Hope that helps. :D

this is pretty goofy. we arent from TROY. we're from pONTIAC. hehe. =P

http://web.archive.org/web/199712101...l_winners.html

Is the Delphi office in Troy, though? I know our team was registered in Troy at one point, too, because that's where our sponsor was from.

Also for the Technokats you forgot honorable mention for Technical Excellence in the AutoDesk Visualization Award.

I still enjoy watching those tapes :-) (I wasn't on the team at the time). We still keep "The Champ" as we now call it in working order, and it served as a good prototype for this years robot, limboing and all. It's on its last legs now, we had an emberassing breakage during an exhibition a month back.

I wonder why nobody from my team ever told me we were former champions...What a bunch of crap heads...They never tell me anything...

original powerhouse
 

to answer Andy Grady's question....

We started in 1997, and from watching tapes of the '96 competition we really thought of Tigerbolt (RIT-Edison Tech) as the powerhouse team.

When we got to our first regional ever (Rutgers, '97, what a blast) they were pretty near us in the pits, so we often looked over their way to see what they were up to. (This was pre-alliance days so imho teams were not as forthcoming about their capabilities and weaknesses.)

We were geared for decent speed, and in one of the early matches they pushed us around with their better torque. Because of that, we geared it down for Nationals.

Ah, memories of the days when the window motor was considered powerful....

Ken

Is the Delphi office in Troy, though? I know our team was registered in Troy at one point, too, because that's where our sponsor was from.

in your response. yes, our Delphi office was there. still there too. =P lols. what was really weird was, we used to be TEAM 32 . sounds crazy!

wow
 

awesome, thanks for all the responses. FIRST hasa really great history of winners. I was suprised to learn that only 71 has repeated a Championship! Cool:D