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Re: An FRC Family Tree...

Chris, if you'd like a bit of History on 816, here it is:

In 2001, Team 87 Reached out to our school (BCIT Westampton) and invited some of our students to join there FRC team. That year a handful of students and a teacher from our school were full members of their team and even traveled to the "National" Championship with them.

Then, in 2002 the two schools split, and 87 remained 87 while a new team was created out of BCIT Westampton known as 816, "The Anarchists" with their robot being named Anomaly. Over the years our name has gone back and forth from being "The Anarchists" to the "Westech Panthers" to "Team Anomaly" or "The Westech Anomaly" due to various issues.

Also, 816 has an indirect relationship with 203 out of Camden County Technical School. The Teacher that started 816 worked at Camden County Tech in the early years of 203. I do not believe he was directly involved in any way, but he knew of their existence.

We still have periodic contact with some of the area teams; 87, 203, 1647, and 2729, but I wouldn't really call any of the contact mentoring. Also, 87, 816, 1647 and 2729 are all sponsored by Lockheed Martin in some form or another...

And a nifty bit of FVC (Not FTC!) history for you. In 2005-2006, 816 chose to field a team for the "First Vex Challenge", and this team was 68. We competed at the Diamond State FVC Tournament that year and were the #4 or #5 seed. The next year, 2006-2007, we became FVC team 816 and competed at the inaugural NJ FVC competition and the Diamond State FVC competition. The next year, 2007-2008, we chose not to go back to FVC due to the various restructuring shenanigans.
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