Disclaimer: The following opinion is purely my own and does not represent Team 1717 or the DPEA.
I am one of these years seniors and its sad for me to see this program that has inspired me so to be leaving this awesome community. I was an academic mentor this year for two of the different classes of the program(the sophomore and freshmen class). From the moment I joined the program my eyes had always been on senior year robotics competition. Being able to hear the freshmen of this year saying that they didn't really want to join the team kinda disappointed me. Being part of the "trail blazer" class obviously gave me a way different experience than the far more polished version of the program that they now have, but its still sad that the majority didn't join for the same purpose as this years robotics team did when we were freshmen. Also sad that we never got to use team 3434. Hehe
. Team 1717 will definitely be missed by the surrounding community.
By the way the trail blazer class was the first class of 100 students that the program had.