Posted by colleen - T190 at 02/23/2001 3:48 PM EST
Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science and WPI.
In Reply to: Let's talk about this...
Posted by Justin on 02/23/2001 1:14 PM EST:
On top of what Deej said.. a point of note...
We have Doherty High School kids on our team.. as a matter of fact, one of the drivers and one of the human players are from Doherty (sophomores there). Of the 6 drive/ops/HP.. 5 of them are currently students at Doherty or came from there prior to attending Mass Academy.
But for the real reason as to why it lists MassAcademy now and not Doherty even though we have kids from there is because the schools have a collabortive going.. just as MassAcademy kids can go to Doherty to be on the sports team, Doherty kids can come to WPI and do FIRST....
Don't be so quick to judge without knowing all the facts.. point being that there would be NO ten year teams if you go so technical as you are, because every year there are changing sponsors on other teams (Hm.. for example, Nypro 126.. yes Nypro remains a large sponsor.. but every year there is a different group of contributors that make that program possible.. so technically under your saying they aren't 10 years either..)
Let's put it this way.. for 10 years WPI has worked to inspire kids into science and technology, and we welcome kids from almost anywhere to participate in the endeavor. So we expanded our horizons to include the students in the High School here on campus... the team has still worked hard in FIRST for 10 years.. and continues to grow stronger..
So Team 190 will be celebrating our ten year anniversary as participants in this great thing called FIRST.. as you'll see by our crate.. t-shirts.. etc..