[Jeff Waegelin]

If there is any way possible to keep a robot, keep it. I can't tell you how many times I've regretted disassembling an old robot. It always seems that as soon as you take a robot apart, the next year's game will require you to design a mechanism similar to the one you just destroyed. There are few better learning and teaching tools in FIRST than an old robot... so think carefully before you take one apart. You can always try to stash it in a team member's basement (or bedroom... someone on my team did that once), but if you take it apart because "we ran out of space"... it's gone forever.