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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
Your seniors leave just because they graduate? You might want to fix that. After spending 6 weeks building, and another 8 weeks competing and iterating why would you not go to world's just because you graduated?
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My point was that they may not be
allowed to travel as part of the team, as described earlier - we have not investigated this issue. Events that are outside of the school year are not under close observation by the school board, but if we were to go to CMP after the last day of school for seniors but before the last day of school for everyone else, we would probably have difficulty with them using team transportation and lodging, at the very least. We have also had several seniors who went to basic taining or another job very close to their graduation, so close as to miss the team banquet in May.
Edit - Oh wow, how ninja'd on this. Slidell does not have any college or University. Most of our graduates pursuing STEM degrees go to LA Tech in Ruston (5 hours away), with UL Lafayette a second choice (3 hours away). LSU, SEL, and UNO are closer, but are all better known here as party or liberal arts colleges. We have never had a veteran mentor attend more than a score of team meetings after graduation. The best we've had was Gixxy, the team founder (also my son), who mentored the summer following graduation, and the next summer, and also attended a few other meetings that fell during LA Tech holidays. My best estimate for him is 16. Otherwise, I cannot think of any who have come back for more than about six meetings, certainly not to provide any real mentoring. Slidell is a bedroom community, and while there are those few whose family has been here for five or more generations, most of us arrived in the last sixty years. (In the case of the Michels, we moved to Slidell in June 2001, just fifteen years ago). I do not expect any of my children to live in Slidell in 2025.