pic: An old publication
 

Re: pic: An old publication
 

Ooh yeah, Dillard #1 on the Florida list. :D

Re: pic: An old publication
 

Oh yeah, Middletown 121 is #1 on the Rhode Island list!! :yikes:

:D

MrToast

Re: pic: An old publication
 

Wow, so there was a previous team in Idaho, I didn't know that.

It's cool to see the changes in size that have occured in FIRST.

Re: pic: An old publication
 

South Lakes...

I think that is the first time that I've seen South Lakes (the school where 116 was until 1999) refrenced anywhere other then our old team website.

Wetzel

Re: pic: An old publication
 

Hey, that is so awesome! Lol it took me a minute to find my team. I realized the little smushed word in Maryland was Parkville, not something funky. Haha. It's cool you found that, our rookie year was '97. =D w00t!

Re: pic: An old publication
 

This was way before my team's time, but I'm pround of my state- the most teams out of any state at the time. 14 of those 19 teams are still running.
_Alex

Re: pic: An old publication
 

Michigan still leads FIRST with 89 teams ,just edging out New York with 86 due to an explosion of rookies (20 so far this season).

Re: pic: An old publication
 

I find it funny that Michigan had 1 more team than NH where it all began.

Re: pic: An old publication
 

You know, it's kinda funny how much South Carolina's presence has grown since 1997. (It's also kinda sad that I couldn't remember whether or not JL Mann still had a team. Nowadays, we know them as 281.)

Twenty-one teams so far this season, with four rookies. Hot diggity dang.

Re: pic: An old publication
 

Well, we Michiganders are crazy like that :p

This was very nice to see! Although I was surprised to find that U of D High had a team and since then have ceased to support one.. They are like my high school's other brother school, maybe we can convince them to get one restarted next year.

Re: pic: An old publication
 

Not surprising considering the amount of industry around Michigan (auto companies). They'll no doubt be the first state to break the 100 team barrier.

Re: pic: An old publication
 

Florida tends to be very volatile when it comes to teams. So many new teams start and so many older teams fail, that it all kind of works out to be roughly the same number of teams on average.

I also find it funny that for as long as I can remember, Panzer Aluminum has won the rookie award at UCF every year I've been in FIRST. lol

Re: pic: An old publication
 

This year, michigan has 1 more team than it did for the 2004 season (89 up from 88). Hopefully by 2006 we'll have 100 teams. We have 13 new rookie teams to make up for the 12 teams that aren't coming back or haven't signed up yet. What I findto be the funniest part of this is that Michigan started off with 0 teams in 1992.
_Alex

EDIT: Just FYI- This is a map of FIRST in 1997, so this is a few years after it all began.

Re: pic: An old publication
 

Isn't it interesting that if you took all the teams on that map you still wouldn't fill half of the Nationals this year.

That year was our first year - the year of Toroid Terror. Our robot, the Silver Eagle, was plywood, copper tubing and aircraft foam from FIRST because that is what we could work with using the hand tools we had. It blew out the Tekin rebel speed controllers regularly. The power drill batteries would fall out when we got hit hard enough. But it moved and was the pride of my guys. We later retired it and made it into a soda can hurler for demos to the grade school kids. Those guys are all past college now and in the engineering world.

I am proud to say that most of the 12 NJ teams are still playing and doing quite well. And we haven't given up on reviving the ones that fell by the wayside.

And the years have flown by- gee I'm getting old.

WC