pic: Remember when?

[Marc P.]

Originally Posted by Cory

Archimedes was definitely around in 02. It was Galileo.

I can confirm this with photographic evidence:


(yes I was there... my senior year on team 38)

I remember there being a Newton, and a Watt. I don't recall Curie or Galileo, but my memory is getting fuzzy with old age.

And a few more images-

The pit tent:


Slightly closer (but lower resolution) view of Einstein:

[Koko Ed]

My first year in FIRST.
My least favorite game and it was hot and all I wanted to do was find shade.

[Tyler Olds]

One of my favorite memories of Epcot was seeing the shuttle launch during opening ceremonies (IIRC, might have been in 2001 as well). Just stopping everything to watch the shuttle rise up in the air was a truly incredible and memorable experience to me and made the magic of Epcot real.

I will agree with Ryan though that the seating was really far back if you were up in the bleachers.

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

My first year in FIRST.
My least favorite game and it was hot and all I wanted to do was find shade.

Be happy your first year wasn't 2001 like mine...........(terrible game IMHO).

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Tyler Olds

Be happy your first year wasn't 2001 like mine...........(terrible game IMHO).

I saw a documentary about the game. Yes. I am very very glad to miss that game.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Marc P.

I remember there being a Newton, and a Watt. I don't recall Curie or Galileo, but my memory is getting fuzzy with old age.

It was definitely

Newton
Curie
Archimedes
Einstein

[davepowers]

I slightly remember this! I remember the spectral of the fireworks they did after closing ceremonies and the GIANT confetti cannons! I also remember having sunburn so bad I couldn't walk for a week. Pretty crazy to see how everything has evolved over the last 12 years.

[Marc P.]

Originally Posted by Cory

It was definitely

Newton
Curie
Archimedes
Einstein

Might have been 2000 then... before divisions. I remember Watt from somewhere, by my old age causes me to blur some of the Disney years together.

[CLandrum3081]

2002...I was 6 and didn't know what FIRST was. :-/

[Chris Hibner]

Originally Posted by Marc P.

Might have been 2000 then... before divisions. I remember Watt from somewhere, by my old age causes me to blur some of the Disney years together.

Divisions didn't start until 2001. In 2000 you had about 200 robots all in one big division. It was a scouting and alliance selection nightmare.

I think Watt was a division name for FLL or FTC/FVC.

I was sure Einstein, Newton, and Curie were the divisions. I could have sworn my old match videos I had from 2001/2002 were "Galileo-XXX.mov" but I looked last night and the were indeed "Arch-XXX.mov".

[mrs. p]

'99 was the first year for pink but 2002 was the first year for a blue banner - archimedes division winner!

i remember having to move around from division to division. no saving seats cause you were always changing until the finals! pink used to sit at the top of the bleachers when we were outside so we could set up "pop up" tents over the seats.

[nlknauss]

I was there! It was my senior year on team 87.

I think this was also a year they handed glow in the dark grey t-shirt to everyone in attendance? It was either 2001 or 2002? I think it was a 10 year anniversary t-shirt. Anyone still have one of those?

Nate

[Wayne Doenges]

My favorite memory of Disney were these Led thing-a-majigs you spun like a party favor that you could painstakingly set up words that would appear when you spun them clockwise. I had programmed several words but my favorite was "Applause"
While waiting in line for Imagination, I would spin it and everyone would applaud. I would stop and they would stop. It was a great feeling of POWER

[Jake177]

Originally Posted by nlknauss

I was there! It was my senior year on team 87.

I think this was also a year they handed glow in the dark grey t-shirt to everyone in attendance? It was either 2001 or 2002? I think it was a 10 year anniversary t-shirt. Anyone still have one of those?

Nate

The 10th anniversary shirts with the glow in the dark FIRST logo were given out in 2001. I didn't realize they glowed in the dark until I rode the Tower of Terror wearing mine. I still have it, but it doesn't glow anymore.

[engunneer]

Originally Posted by Chris Hibner

Divisions didn't start until 2001. In 2000 you had about 200 robots all in one big division. It was a scouting and alliance selection nightmare.

Ah, the good old days where your match schedule didn't just tell you your color, but which field you were on.

I know at least one of the Disney years had the top 5 robots get pits at the top of the stands - probably '96? Of course, that was back in double elimination time, so I don't know how'd they choose a top 5. It's amazing what time does to memories. Must have been 99 then when the first alliances were formed.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Marc P.

Slightly closer (but lower resolution) view of Einstein:

That FIRST logo made up of truss pieces is pretty epic. I wonder if that's hanging around FIRST HQ somewhere.