FYI

I was team mentor on team 255 who competed from 1999-2002 and were National Champs in 2000. All the Teachers and the principal form those years have moved on to other schools and without faculty sponsors the school sadly and reluctantly decided to abandon FIRST - they still are active in Botball and were National Champs in 2001 and placed highly in subsequent regional competitions. I currently mentor 254 and 1043 - I just think that we should share good news as well as controversy. As a matter of fact I am glad to see that the controversy is about too much cooperation!

Here in No. Cal, several teams have opened up their practice fields to teams with fewer resources, among them 481, 254 and 115.