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We keep all of our robots, back at least as long as I've been on the team, which was 2000. I think we even have the '99 robot somewhere out at the shop but it isn't operational anymore. They usually stay in working condition since we tend to use them for demos and such. Some of them have parts added post-season too, to use them for testing the next year's game (like adding a tetra manipulator to the bar hanging robot to give drivers some practice until we could finish that year's bot).

We now store them in the classroom at school (it is a great thing to see 6 or 7 robots lining the back wall of a classroom, and knowing how every one of them did amazing in competition). Perhaps we'll have to move them in a couple of years since we won't be able to fit them all in there. I personally think disassembling a robot is a bad idea, because they have a lot of memories that go with them. Like I said, as a mentor who was once on the team, it is great to go back and see all the robots I helped with and remember the good times I had with them. Keep them somewhere, even if you have to put them in your own garage or something.

Maybe one day we can have champion robots be in a hall of fame or something so they can be preserved for generations to come. That would be awesome!