Shelf Life Of A Team

[Marygrace]

Its our eighth season, and I think well be in it for the long haul. This past year we have been expanding. Before, we only met during the six weeks, but now it is once a week year round. We have like.....40 sponsors (Mostly food). We have some teacher support, but major parent support. My parents and the Nelsons run the team. (Us from RUHS and them from MCHS) we brought the team back from the dark ages.We have great amounts of support from Raython and Northrup Grumman. (Shout out to Northrup) Got to put in a good word. LOL. The society loves us, esecially the buissnesses. Thats why we have so many sponsors, because we are in the newspaper all of the time and they can just hang up the newspaper and say, "We sponsor them!"

Well, the past team members come and go. They all are trying to start their life. A couple them started there own...either website making buissness or grphics something...I dunno, something with computers. Yeah, they are getting pretty good amounts of money. One of them has a Mustang. (It is cool but im dedicated to my hummers...H1's all the way!)

N-e ways, we have like 30 student members and 11 mentors/engineers. We have ten solid members that come to every event and 4 solid mentors/engineers. Everyone else mostly shows up around kickoff and the build season. And thats ok, most of the ones that can't make it have to study for tests in their AP classes and they are doing college applications. *Giggle*, I made a deal with the other co-captain. I said "Ill take care of the exhibitions and lego league competitions, and other Public Relations stuff like that, but you are taking over during the season," LOL, he laughed and agreed.