Well,
This is my 3rd year without a team. What I did last year, my freshman year in college, was basically help out my old team, cheer them on @ Regionals, etc, etc. This year however my HS partnered w/a different sponsor who decided that the old team meant nothing to them so those of us from the old team kind of steered away from helping their efforts, and they made it pretty clear they didn't want help. This in turn sparked the formation of the "Blue Lightning Alumni Association." Basically we're a group of "old teamers" who are determined to make sure that Blue Lightning has a presence at FIRST competitions to come. We made our own t-shirts, had our own give aways, and have may more plans to come. I was later informed that this is getting under the skin of the new sponsor, we're kinda like that one anoying relative that just won't go away. So that is what I do now that I am off a team is get on the nerves of the new one
Now before you all tell me that this is not in the spirit of gracious professionalism...I think that the new sponsor missed that paragraph of the manual based on how some of the old engineers were treated and conversations that they had behind the kid's backs.
-Justin