Sad Day for Seniors

[Katie Reynolds]

Luckily, Michigan Technological University sponsors a FIRST team so I'll be helping them out next year.

[abeD]

Ya ryan i feel you on this one. Sadly I don't know if Penn has a robotics team so my future in FIRST is still up in the air, but i really will miss being totally immersed in designing, building, and driving our robot.

[edomus]

Originally Posted by abeD

Ya ryan i feel you on this one. Sadly I don't know if Penn has a robotics team so my future in FIRST is still up in the air, but i really will miss being totally immersed in designing, building, and driving our robot.

Penn is suposed to be mentoring our team, although we havent actually seen them yet,lol.

[OneAngryDaisy]

I've been dreading this day ever since my senior year began. We're amazingly lucky to have had this opportunity, as most teenagers in the world never even hear of FIRST. I also admit robotics has taken over my life, practically every week I'm out doing something for our team. Sometimes it makes me want to apply to a college close to home just so that I can stay with 341- anyone else feel this?

[shark_byte]

I'l be attending the University of Central Florida next school year, so as long as they continue to host the Florida regional, I'll continue to support the Pink Team!

[suneel112]

Yes, it is sad being a senior and leaving a team. I know I am not a senior yet, but it is inevitable that it will happen, and time will fly by, and 5 competitions later I will realize that I, too, will have to go. (2 off-season [YEAH IRI!!] and 3 in 2005). But remember Dean Kamen's speech. You can start teams in colleges. Plus, you can always "teach" kids how to drive. Sure, you can't do it at official competitions, but during off-season competitions (IRI maybe, Ford Sweet Repeat for sure) there are "mentors only" competitions as well as girls-only competitions. You can still have fun driving or operating as an advisor, just not officially.

[KenWittlief]

in college you get to design, build and drive 'other things'

http://www.rit.edu/~930www/

[Meredith Rice]

Originally Posted by OneAngryDaisy

I've been dreading this day ever since my senior year began. We're amazingly lucky to have had this opportunity, as most teenagers in the world never even hear of FIRST. I also admit robotics has taken over my life, practically every week I'm out doing something for our team. Sometimes it makes me want to apply to a college close to home just so that I can stay with 341- anyone else feel this?

I feel ya. I'm going to the University of Delaware next year and while its just 25 minutes from MOE I dont think I could join another team when I am so attached to my own. Since I am relatively close to home (just an hour and half ride by train) I will be helping 433 out with some Chairmans Award stuff and I am sure I will annually return to Drexel for my most favorite regional, however it will definately be hard not being in that drivers station. My family and friends got a real good look at just how addicted to FIRST I am when I tried for quite some time, even up to less than a week before the champs, to find some way down to Atlanta to volunteer. They not suprisingly said no and for me to move on. It was a rude awakening. I know though I will have to still be involved one way or another, mentoring and volunteering most likely, just so long as I can still be a part of FIRST.

[KenWittlief]

dont get down on yourself - think of a lego league student bemoaning that now thats over for him and now he has to move on to highschool and FIRST

when you get into college you will have opportunities for engineering contests and intercollegiate engineering design competitions that make FIRST look like childs play, seriously.

If you pursue a career in engineering and science then what you did on a FIRST team in HS is only the beginning - the best is yet to come