[Squeakypig]

We learn something new every year...mostly 'what not to do' haha. But it all started back when we were created by team 217.

Our students all go to the same schools and we see each other as rivals but at the end of the day we are friends. We used a lead-screw mechanism driven off of a window motor our very first year...it took 23 seconds to prime out lunacy ball dumper. 217 taught us about pneumatics in FIRST and we improved in our scoring ability by a ton in our second tournament. Their designs every year were inspiring, from the 217 & 148 collaboration on Nano-drive in 2010 to the arm-and-wrist arm of 2011.

Basically what I'm trying to say is no matter how much tension to beat out the other Utica Community Schools team is, and no matter how heated we get (especially when we wear our KFC bucket hats) they will always be our big brother who showed us the ropes.