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It seems like a lot of teams are losing a lot seniors this year. Is it an anamoly that a team loses around a third of its members because seniors graduate, or is that a norm?

We are losing 11 seniors out of 25 students, 1022 is lose a third of its members, I heard that 771 is losing the majority of its members(someone check me on that I may be wrong), and there are plenty more.

What other teams are losing a substantial amount of seniors this year?

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I wouldn't say we're losing a TON of seniors, but our two student team leads, about 5 subteam leads, and 3 more extremely intelligent and helpful guys are all leaving this year, which is a huge dent to our knowledge basis. We're trying to get them to "leave behind" all their knowledge on the things they've brought to our team, but they're leaving at the end of next week. :(

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It seems like on average you should lose a quarter of your members as seniors, unless you scare lots of them away as underclassmen ;)

Team 45 is only losing 3 seniors this year out of about 25 students.

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45 isn't just losing 3 seniors. We are losing 3 great and very productive seniors. Look at it this way. Half of our drive team is going to be gone for next year and our head electrical guy will be at Kettering. They were all vital members this year. It will be sad not having Greg, Austin and Steven around the shop next year. :( But hopefully they can continue on and help a college FIRST team like 461 or 1646. Great job guys' you will really be missed!

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We're losing seven seniors this year. Our driver, our coach, our operator, our human player, both of our spirit queens and one other girl. Pretty big loss but our returning students learned well from them and I am confident that they will eagerly take over their rles and excell at them and our leadership is able to handle such losses (as every FIRST team must. They can't stay forever).

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Well, if it makes you feel better, 1089 is only losing ONE senior, and we're almost positive he'll be back to help out.

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We're losing one four-year member this year, and a couple of seniors who just joined this year. It may seem like seniors leaving may be a bad thing, but underclassmen should look at their open positions as an opportunity, not a loss for their team. Last year, we lost 16 seniors out of 25 or so students. The seniors were responsible for about 90% of what went on last year. But the returning members (there were only four or five of us, as other people left the team for other reasons) sustained, recruited people, and although we did have what could probably be called a "transition year," our team was not affected adversely, and we're poised to have a lot of experience next year. It'll turn out all right, trust me.

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sounds like our team ed, driver, operator 3/4 of last years hp's, pit boss, and our student of the year is also leaving. can't say who because they don't know them selves yet. I surely hope and believe Sparx will once again be a great team next year and i hope to see them at a competition.

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Our team had no seniors this year, so we aren't losing anyone. :) We were a rookie team, so the mentors tried to look for mostly underclassmen and juniors when they recruited people. They didn't want to lose anyone right after our first year. So we'll have 11 returning team members next year, and who knows how many recruits.

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s.p.a.m. is losing a lot of seniors..the most we've ever lost over the 8 years. the team will still be large and running of course. i'm one of those seniors leaving..i'm now offically an alumni it's kinda crazy..did my last work for s.p.a.m. this morning...


combat (21) is losing a lot of people too..good luck to them..who dat bat?? combat :D

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Team 11 is losing 8, 4 year seniors...and 6, 3 year seniors....a pretty huge blow to the team losing their coach(es), human players, and driver as well as the 3 team captains, cheer master and about 4 other solid FIRST participants.....me being the driver, I am looking back on the past 4 years as amazing and hoping MORT can stay successful without its core.

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I'm sorry for your loss of seniors, but just watch those quiet kids who sit in the corner doing nothing - suddenly rise up as leaders and change everything. Trust me I've seen it and it's simply wonderful to see people change(or see the side of people you've never seen).

But anyways, Team 25 is losing 5 seniors. 1 Animation head, 1 RINOS/Drive team, 1 who does nothing, 1 Pit crew head and 1 programmer(my programming buddy). However, all of them are not quitting completely. Mike Ciance is still going to be assisting with the animation, at least training a few members. Keith Chester is taken up the RINOS program national and is going to work hand in hand from WPI with Team 25 to make this program a success. A family aren't we? I feel our team has done a very good job at inspiring students not only to continue with engineering programs, but also to stay in FIRST and promote it heavily.

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From what I've seen this seems to go in cycles - some years there will be a big influx of freshmen who stick with it and other years there are just a few. Cybersonics has nine terrific seniors graduating this year, and probably two juniors will be back next year. We could look at this as a problem or an opportunity. It would be a problem if our graduating seniors had not shown the underclassmen the ropes, but they did. Maybe it's an opportunity - for next year's sophomores and juniors to take on more responsibility, making the team stronger for several more years.

One thing for sure - it will be a different team next year - these are the kids I joined the team with and one of them is my daughter.

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we are losing 4 seniors,me being one, but i decided that next year i will return to mentor the team. i would say that we taught our underclassmen everything that we needed to teach them to move on and be better for next year.

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I guess that I perceived this problem has more severe than it actually was. Because when I first saw it, we are losing ALL of our drive team, everyone who has ever touched the robot controls is leaving. We are losing the all the student leaders, all but one of the subgroup leaders.

But now that I think of it, I know for sure that 4 of us will be back next year as mentors, so it's not too bad. Plus the fact that all I've heard from other teams is like "we are losing the bulk of our team", you never hear a team say that they aren't losing anyone.

Thanks for your responses.

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Now you have.:)

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Team 836 is losing about 13 seniors. However a few of us are coming back and dedicating time to mentor the team. One of our biggest problems is we are losing our 2 best programmers. But we have some awesome mentors and I hope that end of the robot will work out. As for the rest of the robot, the rookies and our junior members have that one under control.

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Just about half of team will be graduating next week. The cool thing is of the 15 kids 10 are going on to study engineering in college, 3 are studying other things in college and two are going to work....in local industry.

It will be tuff to replace these great kids.

These are sad and exciting times.

Have a great "off-Season"

Steve Yasick

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"Knowledge management" is a key issue in industry where more people are moving from job to job now, and where layoffs are so prevelant. As employees leave, they take their knowledge base with them. Losing seniors/mentors can have devastating effects on a team if the team has no processes in place to capture that knowledge. The ideal would be to nurture freshman and sophomores, let juniors take the lead roles, and as seniors, share their knowledge with incoming freshmen and sophomores. As I am transtitioning off a team right now I am trying to sort through all my contacts, documents, etc. to pass them along to other mentors who will be remaining on the team.

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Team 25 lost a large number of seniors a couple years back, so we know what its like to have growing pains like that.

The biggest problem with the last batch that graduated was training- they never trained anyone else on the team, leaving a large number of us untrained students to fill up jobs that required experience. It was hard at first, and caused us to develop training programs for new AND current members. While our program will reach a head next year, I'm happy to say that I no longer worry about leaving 25- I have trained or watched others be trained to the point where I no longer need to worry about the future of the team when certain seniors leave.

I highly advise training new members throughout the year, just not at the end when members are leaving, so that when seniors graduate they will be missed, but not needed.

Let me know if you guys need help developing training programs for your new members.

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I think I will echo the sentiment that it is so hard to lose your leaders, but fantastic when someone new and unexpected steps up to fill the void. We are losing 5 high school seniors, and being a college team, at least 4 college seniors this year. That can make things harder yet when you are losing two sets of leaders, but we all knew that this was coming, and planned accordingly. We selected people to takeover responsibility, or people stepped forward to volunteer. That is on awesome aspect of FIRST, anyone and everyone can and usually has the opportunity to lead.

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173 is losing 7 (1 being me) seniors. We're losing the base driver, 2 coaches, back up arm driver, 2 heads of pit crew, team captain and basically leaders of the team. We've done our best to try an educate the underclassmen and warn them what they're in for (a little bit better than what our class went through 2 years ago;) ) They're awful quiet and it kinda of scares me sometimes, but some are already rising up to meet the challenge. Also, use your offseason events to your advantage. At offseason, our seniors step back and let the underclassmen do the work (minus one match, we still want to drive one match) It's letting them learn while we're still there to help if they have questions or need anything. We tried backing off a little bit at Championships, but it was really hard, mostly because we didn't want to. We're working on letting go, ok?

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I count 1293 losing...(counts) four seniors that I can remember.

We're going to miss 'em (one is our main artist-type person, the one behind the main logo and the Ockham's Raizor logo, another is a great builder, another is our webmaster and driver and generic leet haxor, and the last one was our arm operator this year), but I think we're going to keep on rolling.

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Cyberblue is losing 13 seniors and the incoming applications are not making up for the loss. I am feeling a little pressure.

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team 56 is losing 5 members i know ill be back next year, and 2 other people that dont do much will probably come to hang out, none of the driver team is seniors the base driver is in 11th now and the arm operator and hp were are in 10th now. and a kid just signed up thats in 9th now hes pretty good at inventor and computer animation programs so we might have an animation next year. so we are set for 2 more years.

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648 is losing 14 seniors. 4 are 4-year members, 3 are 3-year members, and the rest are either 1- or 2-year members. We have 31 students :ahh: :ahh: That's almost 1/2 :ahh:

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For some teams, it's not how many you lose. It's what skills you lose. As a senior myself it is especially true.

This year, I had to pass on almost all my tricks and tips on scouting to the sophmores and juniors.(Some tricks can't be pulled off by anyone else) The teams is also losing an electrician and a fabricator. The electrician, is the bigger of the two loses.

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from what i know about my teams (1270) & (541) were losing about 7 productive seniors both teams are losing their drivers but have back ups. their programmer their captains. the said thing about this is its hard to see them leave but so far about two out of seven of them is coming back next year to be mentors because they know so much they can help out. and give the old mentors a break. its kind of sad but kind of happy to say that I'm no longer cap of 541 but now a mentor of both first teams i look at them like sister teams because 1270 developed out of 541 and we always help each other out. but next year the teams will have to learn how to be strong. and first is getting a pair of new mentors I'm looking forward to see all the team members that are becoming mentors or any thing like that next year so if you see me next year good luck and keep up the GP :)

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Team 294 is losing two seniors, including myself. Major recruiting spree this summer and fall for next year!

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That is true. The majority of our team this season consisted of 3 seventh graders, 1 eigth grader, 1 freshman, 3 sophomores, 7 seniors, and 3 mentors. Next year, team captains will be a junior and sophomore. Of course there are going to be some problems, but part of being a team is overcoming them, and I have full confidence that SWAT and other teams will do just that.

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Team 818 first competed in the 2002 season.

This year, we're losing all of the seniors who joined as freshmen. If I counted right, we've got a total of eighteen seniors (including myself) who are leaving this year, including our main driver, strategist, and more than a few subteam leads.

But we're a huge team. I don't think that any of the seniors are going to be irreplaceable - we've all been working with younger students and they should be ready to step up and fill the holes we've got now. I know that some of the seniors are planning on mentoring next year, while others (like me) are going to be leaving forever because of distance.

It's a big loss, but we should be able to survive it.

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Team 135 is osing every student member of its team. We are very unique and we have a new team of students every year, 22 this past year, 19 new students next year. Our team may have been in FIRST for 8 years, but every student is a rookie. Just because we are always rookies don't count us down. We work all year long and we are always a solid group of students. Every year we have rookie drivers, pit and everything. I think it shows the true skills of our mentors and the dedication our students have to the program and to FIRST.

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My team, 95, is losing much of it's core: 2 operators, drive coach, mechanical lead, electrical lead, machining lead, pit crew chief, scout lead.... it's crazy!

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Our team is lossing 95% of its Strength. So far there are only 4 people left behind. But thats the way it is. I think of it as part of FIRST CHALLENGE. As a team leader for next year, i know that we are going to have less resources and less light bulbs (brains). So me and the left over (otehr members) are already planning new ways to recruit new members and make our team stronger for upcoming years. This time, we are not only targetting high school students, but also planning to target the nearby Middle School for FLL, so that those students will be pumped up for FRC.
Yes it's a disadvantage for most of the teams, that our seniors are leaving, but thast the way it is. Its a complete cycle. Seniors will help the nearby teams as mentors though. Two of my friends, going to Cornell and Mason are plannign to help the nearby teams as mentors. And on the same hand, middle schoolers will provide rookie members every year.
So, don't worry, take it as a Challenge given by Dean and Woodie.
(lolzz)
:rolleyes:

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Team 1626 only will be losing one senior. He pretty much taught us how to program, and just helped us, he let the sophomores run the team. All that remains as of right now is 5 Sophomores going to be juniors, and about 4 freshmen going to be Sophomores. 1626 is set for at least 2 more years. We'll have our "core" guaranteed for these next two years, and hope there will be new members to pass our knowledge on to.

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im a junior now, this was our second year in FIRST
we only have 1 senior now, but next year, tha Class of 06 will be leaving and taking about 75% of the team with it
It's gonna be tough for tha younger kids
I suggest training them in building, programming and leadership during sophmore year so you have a predecessor
Either way, i'm cutting college for 6 weeks to go back to high school for the build as a mentor :D

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Our team has 32 members and we will be losing 10 of the hardest working seniors we have ever had. They have showed us how to be great workers, and team members with what they have showed us i belive our team will still be as strong as ever.

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1123 is losing a ton of seniors this year, and all but 1 or 2 of the remaining members have only been on for one year. It's really bad. Our programming team next year may consist entirely of one freshman who has not had a programming course yet. Fortunately he's been involved for a couple years and has picked up some skills while helping out during programming meetings.

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at the end of this year team 237 will be losing 4 seniors out of about 20 - 25 students and we are also losing our teacher advisor because he's retiring..but dont worry we will be back again just as strong next year! :D ;)

and at the end of next year (2006) we will be losing another 4 - 5 people including myself though im sure a few will be back to help out..i know i will be!

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we kinda get the rough end.... at hills road there is only 2 years of students (your seniors and juniors). We thus lose half the team every year. eg i will be going to uni this year after only 2 years on the team....
1542 are ok as tehy have our type of school with the school below incorporated ... :o

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Team 1108 is losing 7 seniors out of 23 kids. It is really hard for us because they were the absolute heart of our team. They are the people who were here our team's rookie year, so now it is up to all the newer people to keep it going. I'm sure they'll be coming back to visit though, I know they won't be able to keep away. *lots of love to all seniors*

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Cyber Blue is losing about 13 of 35 students because of graduation. After doing this for several years I've come to learn that even though you think some people aren't replacable or it will be impossible to fill their shoes, our kids always come through and step it up. Hopefully my class can do the same next year since we'll be the seniors and team leaders.

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we are losing around 12 out of 16 leaving 4 freshes including me :ahh:

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Team 393 is losing 19 seniors out of 38 members. These are hard working kids that have been great leaders and representatives of our school. They will be greatly missed!!

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Our team is also losing a lot of seniors. However, losing a third of the team as seniors is normal, because:
Poeple who join FIRST usually stay on, so there should be seniors>Juniors>Sophmores>Freshman At a constant team size.
Also the loss is noticible because Seniors put in the most work, and the most time into the work. This makes them seem irreplacable, when in fact their underdog junior (who nobody notices) is probably almost as good.

Don't worry, replacements are coming in, and they are YOU!

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After the 2003 season, 340 lost a ton of students. We only had 5 return. It was like starting new. A large part of the people that left had been the freshmen that started the team 4 years previous in 2000. It was sad, it was tough, we weren't sure how it would be okay.

In 2004, we were undefeated at Buckeye, and won the Newton division in our strongest showing yet. Sometimes change is good.

Seniors will be missed. But, if they've done their job right, they won't be irreplaceable.

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We are losing soo sooo many seniors this year. its going to be so lonely without them next year lol

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my team )1568 is losing 2 members, when u look at it it is 1/4 of our team...BAttlecry 6...8 days and we will be back

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Team 213 is going to be losing 6 seniors out of about 20 kids this year. This is the most seniors lost in a few years by the team, and the fact that we have only have one junior on the team is kind of a problem. We are lucky to have a number of talented mechanical design freshmen. A friend and I have been working to teach them Inventor, with decent success. As the team president, I have taken it on to get the students really excited about the team so that they push to continue it, and effectively take up the reins themselves next year. So far, so good.

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We lose some where between 1-4 seniors each year. This year we're only gonna lose two. One of wich has been with the team since it started. Next year we'll lose one (myslef). the year after we lose well like 13. wow....i just relized how bad that is. Hopefully we'll be able to recruit more people!

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team 1625 is loseing all of there animation team and the only guy who does promo videos.

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last year we lost 8 last year this year we only have like 2 but they have been here for a very long time... and it will be sad

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this year my team (599 robodox) we are lossing more then half the team b/c most of us are all seniors. out of 35 kids 20 of us are graduating. but we are trying to c if our team can survive next year with out us. we hope this will not be the last year for our team.

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Team 11 lost the biggest chunk of their seniors last year, but this year will be another blow. After my year, there isn't many kids who've stepped up yet so it'll be an interesting change for MORT next year.

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yeah this seems to happen a lot but most of our grads come back on weekends to help keep us in check.. its great.

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Team 617 will be losing ALL of its seniors. They each play a key role from kickoff to regionals. The seniors we will be losing include our "el presidente", the R&D VP(me), the marketing and awards beauties, our programming GOD, the fabrication guru, the website creator, the head of Inventor and CAD, and other various members. So, in total about 15+ members.

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Losing seniors can be devastating but it's even more devastating to loose their skills. Even though about half of our FRC team it's Kay since we have a good training program. Our FRC team is made entirely out of juniors and seniors (and one or two sophomores). This year we implemented a program requiring students who haven't done robotics before to join one of our school's VEX teams for their first year. One benefit Ive found is, we are going to have a higher percentage of programmers next year.

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how many members seniors and etc. are on you guys team we have 24 and this year the rookies outnumber the vets by 2 i think if i remember rightly

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Our team is losing most of the team this year. A lot of the most important positions are in the hands our the seniors this year but the team seems to do better every year even though a lot of the members graduate...

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Heres a bit of 1403 history,

2004: Team started, 20 students on the team. Team does well pulls off an amazing rookie season winning all the rookie awards (over various events) and pulling off an engineering award too (xerox creativity) only problem, 15 of the students are seniors. and the few students that were left were freshman, and sophmores (a few juniors)

2005: 5 students come back thats it. New advisor, new students, new mentors (EM's and NEM's) new logo, the works, we still have only a minimal number of students from the rookie year team. We got to work early, and tried to get everyone up to speed as much as we could, build season comes down and we had a build season very similar to a rookie team, the result was a slightly more developed design and it was actually a more successful robot that our first one. We pulled off another Xerox Creativity, and become runners up at the buckeye regional (229 and 135, woot!) Looking back this season was quite successful despite having nearly a complete team turn over.

2006: Our first season in where we didn't have to deal too much with a loss of students, we lost a few members but a lot of the students that rose to the challenge back in 2005 came back and are sharper than ever. We currently are enjoying a very good build season, and we are starting to act like a veteran team. God willing, we'll see results that live up to our expectations this year.

So whats the conclusion, anyone can do it. Just put your head down and keep working and learning, if you don't see the playing field level this year, look to the future where your underclassmen will have to opportunity to really lead the team. Keep working......

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1139 is losing the heads of almost every group - four seniors - and two or three other members, cutting our size down by about a third. We tried to do a sort of seniors-training-newbies thing this year, which may or may not have worked.. :eek:

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Let's see.. we are losing 4 people on the animation team (out of 5), me (only programmer), main student that does electrical, webmaster, and probably a bunch more.

Next year is going to be interesting for them.

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heh. team 1712, which is a rookie team, is loosing 3 seniors. the problem is though that I, being one of them, am the only one who knows all the tools and building techniques, one of the other ones is increadible with design and programming, and the last one has built robots for the show Battle Bots, so knows how to make the entire robot system. so my team will really be loosing everyone who knows what theyre doing. it kind of sucks.

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Oh yes, I was going to comment on this as well. Moojoe pretty much has cut all the necessary peices for our chassis himself and is the go to guy when we need something cut, drilled, screwed, ect.; Our lead programmer is the best we have and has pretty much studied all the aspects of programming and pretty much begs to have the programming laptop with him at all times; lastly, our head robot designer and driver has been on battlebots and has quite a bit of experience with robots already. And all three of these guys are leaving after this year... fun.

But luckily, we always have somebody around that is watching these guys and going out and learning this stuff for themselves, so we are trying to transfer that knowledge from them to other members of the team. It will be tough for next year, but we have a bunch of great mentors and college students helping us out so I think it will be fine. Will just cause everybody else to work harder and show off their true potential.

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As a graduating class we want to win at everything this year (at least everything we can). We are aiming for the Chairman's Award at Nationals and we want to win the the AZ Regional. We also want to win the MATE ROV Competition and hopefully come back and mentor the team....

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Our team is usually an all senior team so we loose basically all our team members every year. However, because of the way the class is set up, most of us on the team have taken multiple technology/manufacturing classes. So we aren't completely lost.

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I've been on my team for a couple of years now, and I've experienced those moments where a third of our awesome seniors leave. Each year, students would always talk about how the team will be like after all the seniors are gone. Who would do this, or how the group will function without them. But over it all, some way, some how, and magically, the younger students have always stepped up to the plate when a filling was needed.

From my perspective, seniors are role models there to show the rookies or younger veterans how FIRST is like. Moreover, they teach the younger members how to make FIRST all worth it and exciting. They're like older brothers and sisters showing us what to do. As they leave, their legacy stays behind and the rookies along with the younger veterans carry on the team. :D

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Only two freshmens made the team this year so im always reminding them that i am their future :D

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We lost half of our team to graduating seniors at the end of last season. Only 4 of us went to college close enough to be able to mentor the team on a regular basis. We thought that we had a lot more new members to replace the old ones, but as it turned out, when build season rolled around, most of them stopped coming because of the time commitment. But the ones who did stay, are learning very quickly. Some of them have already started to take on the leadership roles left by the graduating seniors. If I sounded overly worried at the end of last season, I'm not any more. This team is still in good hands no matter how many seniors the team loses each year.

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were losing 10 seniors this year...out of team of about 30 or 40 students. but those about 4 of those seniors....are the animation team....

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:eek: Cyber Blue's losing 12 of their 37 members next year. We have quiet a few good juniors and underclassmen, but 12 is a large number of people when several of them are good team leaders.

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People ask every year, "How will the team replace such great seniors next year?" But luckily, it always seems to work itself out. Just make sure to promote the team to younger students so that they will be interesting in joining the team, and let the freshman get involved so that they carry on the soon-leaving team members' knowledge.

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graduation or not they can't get rid of me that easy, I came back this year to mentor and hope to do the same for many years to come

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We are only losing one student to the scourge of graduation this year, despite the programs best efforts at preventing it.

Me.

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our team this year is mostly seniors but next year dondero and kimball (our two teams schools) are combining so we have tons of new people that we can bring in since both schools will be one.

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:( Yeah our team is losing all of our seniors :(

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Yeah 314 is comprised of 1 senior and a bunch of everythin else. Its going to be sadwhen i have to let them go. I am the only senior.

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Our team 240 TEMPEST is not losing any seniors, we only had one to start with.

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Yeah being a 4 year senior!!!

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Every year teams lose seniors. It's the way it has to go. We can't avoid losing seniors but we can train good members that would fill the gap and do the job the way it should be done. It all starts with the freshmen. If everybody work together, willing to learn and teach, then losing seniors wouldn't be a big deal. Because other seniors willl fill in. Actually, I think this thing is good, because as studentss change with time, the team becomes more likely to be better. The leaving seniors should be an examples that underclassmen should look up to. Because there must be leaders in teams, and i think most seniors have got what it takes.

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Our team, for some reason, has no seniors and only 2 juniors. Team 1719 is almost entirely composed of sophomores and freshmen. But to be fair we are also at the bare minimum. originally we started with 5 juniors and even more sophomores, but most of the juniors and some of the sophomores left. About how many new people leave after the start?

Re: Teams losing lots of seniors
 

That only leaves it for your team to be mainly juniors and seniors in two years.

Our team is similar, but it still has a well-established base of seniors and juniors, me being one.

Based on the results of our diverse team, which is one-half freshmen and one-half upperclassmen, we have enough people to do about all jobs we would like to do for students, while we all have the capability of being effectively led or having leadership potential.

Re: Teams losing lots of seniors
 

Well team 528. We have 8 main people and next year its only going to be me and one other kid so I basily over the down time got to recruit a lot of people. :ahh:

Re: Teams losing lots of seniors
 

At least half. We started with about 35-40 "interested" students, but we are down to the same size core of 12-14 we had last year, with another 10-12 who think the robotics build season is a 2-hour per week commitment.

On the other hand, our team is really healthy, with a core group of 2 seniors, and six or eight each sophomores and juniors. Our team leaders are mostly juniors, so next year should be very strong.

Re: Teams losing lots of seniors
 

I suppose that this is an update as to how my team is doing now. The rookies have proven to be amazing to work with, as they are the most capable and pleasant group of any grade that I have worked with during a season. I had confidence, but was nervous at the beginning of the season; however now, I know that these guys will have no trouble keeping the team going next year. The group has persevered through the most difficult time of build, that is not being always able to do something, such as when we had to start detailing the design, or when we were machining (We cannot have kids that have not been trained in our vocational machining class operating the lathes and mills, only me and another senior are qualified this way). These guys picked up on the programs that we use very quickly. Some learned 3DS, or Inventor, or the programming techniques. Only one rite of passage left for them...time for a regional!