Aging FRC Mentors/Coaches/Judges/Fans/Groupies

[smurfgirl]

This is my eleventh season and I still feel pretty young.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by smurfgirl

This is my eleventh season and I still feel pretty young.

That's because you are!

[Koko Ed]

This is my 15th season of FIRST.

[Trying to Help]

I think this is my ninth season; it all kinds of blurs together at some point. Welcome back!

[DonRotolo]

Season 12 here, 1st with a different team.

[ebarker]

Season 11 in progress..............

[Tristan Lall]

18^th. That was a surprise to me too.

[Wayne Doenges]

16 years.
Thanks, now you're making me feel old

[Al Skierkiewicz]

When I started, 111 was not a permanent number, we used Motorola radios and drill batteries and there were not any alliances. For the mentor parade, I just wait until everyone has walked past and get in the end of the line. This is season 21 for me, my wife and two other WildStang mentors.

[D_Price]

Hey everyone this is my 12th season with Team 1708 out of McKeesport, Pa. I wouldn't another season for the world. We just aged well. Not such thing as old haha.

[JohnBoucher]

In one role or another 17 robots old.

[pfreivald]

My first seasons were 2001 and 2002 as the founder and lead mentor of 827 (sadly now defunct) in Fremont, CA; I moved back from California and had a hiatus until 2005 (while raising the funds/interest to form 1551) and have been doing it ever since.

So...eleven with 1551, two with 827. That's either thirteen or fifteen years, depending on whether or not you count the years of establishing 1551 as "being involved," which I wouldn't.

Either way, it's been a minute or three.