[Jay H 237]

Our team owns the robot and we're able to do whatever we wish with it.

During the summer months the robot stays at a team members house so we can take it to mini-comps and demostrations without worrying about how to get into the school.

Our first robot (the '99 season with the floppies) was donated to the local college (Naugatuck Valley) in 2000. It was used as a reversed engineering assignment for thier CAD classes. It's "remains" in 2000 were structual and mechanical only since all teams had to return the I/O and some other electrical parts at the end of the season back then. It's current status is unknown.

Our 2000-2002 robots were destroyed after any salvagable parts were removed. They were sold for scrap. I know that's the last thing you probably wanted to hear but it's the truth. We had no storage space for them, and after being shuffled around they became "unwanted". The electronics, motors, and pnuematics were saved for testing and prototyping while the remains were cut up and taken to the local scrap dealer.

We still have our 2003 robots bare chassis and miscellaneous parts. Some of us on the team have plans to rebuild it into a driving chassis for programming and testing.

The 2004 robot is still mostly intact (one transmission is apart). We won a regional (NJ) and made it into the championship semi-finals (Archimedes) last year with it so we plan on keeping it around.