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We keep all our robots and have only this past year begun to use old old speed controllers and such.

1999- was cannibalized
2000- classroom, missing one wheel, control system, and has lost it's speed controllers for the fixing of other old robots.
2001-class room, missing one gear for drive-train and control system.
2002-class room, Missing parts of control system, other than that, it all turns on and appears to be in working health.
2003-Classroom, Fully Functional
2004-classroom-gear box has one cim working on each side (the drill motors burned out on each side) Also the tower extends but does not rotate, due to faulty speed controller.
2005-Classroom, missing 2 wheels(lost at main Mech mentor's house, aka Mike D's) tower rotates but does not extend due to fault speed controller or two.
2006-classroom, fully functional except for rollers which have been turned off for demos due to the noise factor.
2007-is at the highschool w/o a classroom, that is also fully functional
2008-Driver's house to practice, last I heard. Fully functional, and possibly to be improved b4 IRI

We use our robots for several things. One, kids on our team look at them, mess with them, take them apart, put them back together, and fix them when they break while being practiced with. This helps the new kids learn lots and lots and see how it all comes together before build season starts.

Also, many students learn and practice programming by taking home old robots to practice all kinds of programming.

Also, we use them to practice like crazy during build season, and also at other times like before an offseason or two.

Demos, are probably the biggest use of the old robots as year round we try our best to do things by ourselves and often with other teams from nearby to show our communities what FIRST robotics is all about, and how valuable of a resource it is.