[JackN]

I am glad that my teams do collaboration on robot build and design. We are a very unique situation, different than every collaboration I have heard about, except for 340 and 424. We began the collaboration idea when team 494 became to big for one team. We were running out of jobs for students to have a hands on experience in our build room, so when team 70, a nearby team was going to fold due to the loss of a mentor, team 494 came in and took the team under our wing, inviting all of their members to join us and work at our shop with us. Only a handful of members came so to fill out the members of the team, we added any student that wanted to be on 70. Mainly these were the new students to the team that joined that year, but several experienced members went over to help our as well. The partnership we had helped build a playful rivalry that existed all throughout last season, even into the offseason. This collaboration has created a bond that we hope will never break.