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Originally posted by Wetzel
I heard someone from Raytheon speak at the SoCal regional about how they started sponsering teams 8 years ago, and are beggining to see the kids come out of the HS/college into the workforce, and are comming to work for them.
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Team 111 currently has 5 mentors that are former FIRST students, and I believe there are several others who were in FIRST in high school that now work at Motorola but don't participate on our team.
My first year in FIRST was 1995, when there was only 43 teams at the Championship! Back then I remember it being a big goal of Dean's to break the 100 team mark.
It would be an interesting (although difficult) exercise for a team to look up its roster from its first year in FIRST and find out where everyone's at. Personally I only know the status of about 5 of my teammates from '95-'97, and 4 of them have graduated college with engineering degrees.