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Originally Posted by tsaksa
I guess when it comes to FIRST I try to be open to support from a variety of sources. What does a company like J. C. Penny have to do with robots? Do they sell programmable controllers? Do they market aluminum flat stock? No, but they are a member of the community that sees the value of supporting our youth and recognize FIRST as a great way to do that. That is usually enough for me from any sponsor.
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J.C.Penney's Investment in FIRST as part of its own existing afterschool program.
I'm not exactly sure how many of these Teams were supported by J.C. Penney's Grants, but we lost the following 17 Rookie teams between 2012 and 2014:
Florida Rookie Teams Lost between 2012 and 2014:
3938 Miami Radix Robotics 2013
4052 Fort Myers Wolfpack 2013
4066 Groveland MechMate 2013
4088 Port Charlotte Flash4ward 2013
4133 6406 E Chelsea St S2-Boltz 2012
4157 Fort Myers Imaginarium 2012
4179 Cantonment Tahisco Techs 2013
4184 Naples Wreck-techs 2013
4190 Port Richey Hephaestus 2012
4197 Dade City Lacoochee Cowboys 2013
4214 Riverview Robo-Flames 2012
4222 Sanford Frolicking Nerds 2012
4223 Lakeland Robo-Flight-Transformer 2013
4321 Jacksonville Vikings 2013
4333 Tampa Team MOSI 2012
4341 Mulberry Panther Robotics 2013
4706 Miami Bulls 2013