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Re: What do you do with a robot at the end of the season?

We have our 2005 robot in near original condition, they had to reuse some of the electronics in 06 & 07 but were almost all put back afterwards except for the green shell. The 2009 robot is currently on display in the front lobby of our sponsor Magna. Our last 3 robots (14, 15, 16) have been some of our more successful ones so they are being kept in tact, at least until the freshman class of each year graduates then due to lack of space they will probably be scraped for parts unless another use is found for them. As for practice bots we will be using this years for programing practice and possibly driver training, and we have kept the drive train of 2015's as the powered takeoff is good teaching tool for new mechanical members.

This years competition robot still has 4 offseason competitions to drive at (MARC, IRI, Kettering Kickoff, & Bloomfield Girls competition) and thankfully it fits easily in a car so we'll be able to bring it to lots of outreach events, we did the same with the 2015 robot but due to the size it was difficult to transport).
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2014 Kettering: QF -- Livonia: 6th, Winners (314 & 815) -- Lansing: 6th, Finalists (314 & 4327) -- MSC: RCA -- CMP: 7th captain, QF
2015 Waterford: SF -- Livonia: 12th, Finalists (3641 & 5756) -- MSC: OF,RCA -- CMP: SF

2016 Center Line: Finalists (3098 & 5915) -- Livonia: 3rd Captain, SF -- LSSU: Undefeated Quals, Finalist (2959 & 5247) -- MSC: OF, RCA -- CMP: 8th captain, QF

A special thanks to all the amazing teams I've gotten to drive with, I enjoyed every minute of it regardless of the outcome
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