[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by nobrakes8

I'm one of 4 seniors leaving team 1071 this year. I've been with them for 2 of the 3 years, we went from worst at our last invitational in 2004 to winning UTC this year, first time ever makeing the elmination rounds EVER for team max, then going to nationals and being an alliance captian was something awsome, especially when we looked down the line of all the captians and see vetran teams like 245, 191, 27, 173, and our team included with them.

We got where we are today by haveing awsome seniors last year who were captians of sports teams (as I was this year) and they really stepped up. This year the four seniors were there every night, as a senior I could only hope Team MAX could pick up where they left off this year. It's going to be hard saying goodbye in 2 months at our team party because in our short 2-3 years on MAX we grew to be really close friends even with the underclassmen. Unfortunatly for Team MAX, even with the advisors asking us to return as mentors, two of us have to move onto bigger things and moving away for college (we even got the "can't ya take the winter semester off" speech already)

Next year I want to try and ref or do something at the Finger Lake Regional and to some extent maybe help team 191 (those guys were pretty cool). I've been a member of NHS, SkillsUSA, and other things, FIRST is by far the best organization out there, I'm sure most seniors feel that way and will miss being a high school student on a FIRST team as much as the teams miss us.

Good luck underclassmen, most of ya'll are ready to step up, at least my team is, and I'm sure next year we'll be amazed bout what you guys could do.

Unfortunately we cannot accept college mentors. Only Xerox and Wilson Magnet employees. But if you are going to RIT they are a huge influence on the Rochester FIRST scene and support numerous teams already (73 most notably, 1405, 1567, 340, though GRR doesn't really need it some of their mentors are from RIT like Kate Norland and Matt Leese and Greg Needel helps 1511) and it looks like at least five more teams will be starting up next season and will certainly require veterans to help them along.