Demolition Squad... Team 267 needs your help.

[Ryan Albright]

Originally Posted by Ted Boucher

3) At a last resort... you can always work in a basement or a garage at someones house. Even better, a local FIRST team could share their place with them and help them out with fabricating parts and storage.

The team is from Florida so not many basements here because of the water table

Yes this is a very sad thing that this team is falling apart, they were the parent team to my team back at home team 710. I have always looked up to this team and that fact that they might not be around is harsh. So hopefully we can get them back up on there feet.

[Warren Boudreau]

The easiest way to get an engineer on board is to take them to a competition. After that they are hooked. Unfortunately, there are none in the near future.

Here are a few recommendations from the school of hard knocks.
1). See if there is a local organization of machine shop owners. For us it is called the Manufacturers Roundtable. Petition them for donations of time, material, and money.
2). I know this will sound like heresy to some, but you don't really need an engineer to make a robot. The kit of parts usually has enough things in it for a running robot.
3). If you can't find a place to build, try a storage unit business. South Florida's equivalent to basements. Maybe you can talk your way in to an unused unit for the season.
4). Keep it simple. With limited resources, you have to be careful not to bite off more than you can chew.

Demolition Squad has always fielded a good team. The veteran members can look at this as an opportunity to build a robot and show the rookies how it's done. It may not be as impressive as in previous years, but they can say that they designed and built it. As long as they all learn something, then the season is a success.

[Ryan Albright]

Originally Posted by Warren Boudreau

Demolition Squad has always fielded a good team. The veteran members can look at this as an opportunity to build a robot and show the rookies how it's done. It may not be as impressive as in previous years, but they can say that they designed and built it. As long as they all learn something, then the season is a success.

See the team lost alot of there veteran players, after 2003 they lost motorla as a main sponsor the two big team members that held the team together and were the drivers both graduated. Last year they only had one returning mentor and as of what i heard he is not returning to them.

[Kristen_267]

Originally Posted by Ryan Albright

See the team lost alot of there veteran players, after 2003 they lost motorla as a main sponsor the two big team members that held the team together and were the drivers both graduated. Last year they only had one returning mentor and as of what I heard he is not returning to them.

Yeah, we no longer have Motorola as a major sponsor. The two team members graduating really had no great effect on us, as we have other dedicated veteran members (the statement that we lost most of them is untrue), but the terrible lack of sponsors and mentors is killing us.

We have been a team for six years and are trying desperately to keep together for a seventh. We have enthusiasm and dedication, but besides that we have nothing: no space, no machine shop, no funding, no mentors, no anything. Everything we once had has been taken from us, and, though we are dedicating every minute he have to saving our team, the future of Team 267 is very unclear.

Most of us have been on the team for a few years and want to have just one more season for our senior year, but we keep running into problems.
Does anybody have any ideas at all of ways we can find what we need to keep our team alive??? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Kristen L. - Demolition Squad Team 267