[Trent B]

I was one of the original members of 2502 and graduated from it a few years ago. It was definitely strange to have so much free time in my spring semesters that I didn't know existed after 4 years of robotics.

I tend not to get too sentimental about things like graduating, but this may have been because I was at the U of MN my senior year anyway. Additionally, I spent much of my senior year trying to train the younger members, so that I would know when I left the team would be in capable hands. One of those younger members went on to win Dean's List at 10,000 Lakes Regional this year. I still am a source of contact for my team about various problems due to the time I spend on CD and the amount of knowledge I have read over the years.

This year, I actually began to help mentor Team Neutrino (3928) with numerous other alumni who attend Iowa State University. I feel as though my transition from student, to captain, to mentoring was one smooth and fluid transition, my involvement with FIRST and FRC never really ended or changed suddenly, but rather slowly changed from learning to teaching.