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Originally Posted by Matt Leese
Not quite right about the Churchville Chili bit (team 340). 340 was started by an alumni of RIT who had worked on the FIRST team at RIT. This was in the year 2000. I don't believe Fairport and Churchville-Chili ever worked together.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the pedigree of most of the teams in Rochester (I won't include too many team numbers until later because it frankly doesn't make much sense):
191, the X-Cats, became involved in the initial competition in 1992 with Xerox sponsoring Wilson High School. In 1993, the X-Cats convinced Kodak to sponsor a team with Edison Tech high school. That continued until Kodak switched sponsorship to Fairport High School in 1995. Harris/RF then sponsored Edison Tech. In 1996, RIT became involved in the Edison Tech team. In 1999, I believe, Kodak began to sponsor Marshall High School (team 211). In 1998, there was no Edison Tech team. In 2000, an alumni of RIT who had worked with the Harris RF/RIT/Edison Tech team, started team 340 with Nortel Networks and Churchville-Chili High School. In 2001, Alstom Signaling and RIT (team 73) sponsored a team at Edison Tech. The team then did not exist for 2002. In 2003, Bausch & Lomb and RIT (team 73) sponsored a team at Edison Tech (hopefully for good this time). In 2003, Xerox sponsored a team with Webster High School (1126 I think). I don't know much of the history of Fairport's team so I'll have to take that information from you.
So the evolution in Rochester is a bit convuleted but it all starts with the X-Cats.
Matt
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And Xerox started team 1450 (XQ Robotix)
Team 1511 was started by Kim O' Tolle who started team 229 who started out with team 176.
RIT has connections with 1511 as well and also sponsors team 1405.
Team 378 was a combination of two schools who split. 378 is with Newfane high school while 1507 is with Lockport.