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Re: The Rise and Fall of FIRST Teams through time.

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Originally Posted by FreedomForce
Intresting disscussion came up today, has anyone noticed any good teams all of a sudden dissipear..... or anything of that nature.

And through that nature, has any team reammerged through the ashes.
Our team's story is one of a team that fell but is now rising again...

From 2001 to 2003 there was a team from Leland High in San Jose know as the Sillowhats. From what I heard this team was progressively getting better, too. But then the original group of friends who started the team became busy with college stuff, so they left. During 2004 there was no team because of lack of enthusiasm and lack of funding. But then in 2005, 5 girls and 5 boys (I am one of them) along with two dedicated mentors, picked up where 604 left off, and was reborn as Quixilver. With the help of a friendly machine shop and a NASA grant, we went to the PNW regional in Portland. Beyond our wildest dreams, and with the help of 492 and 1595, WE WON!!!
(still get warm fuzzy feelings from that...)
Winning the Judges' Award and the General Motors Industrial Design Award (not to mention the Safety Award) in 2006 proved that a year later we are on the right track, and is pushing us to make FIRST Robotics a permanent program at our school. 604 dissapeared under the name Sillowhats but has been reborn from the ashes as Quixilver, and we intend to remain Quixilver.
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