Ten years

[Kyle Love]

Originally Posted by Clark Gilbert

I believe the Technokats are going into their 14th (or 15th) year/season for '04-'05. They have also shipped a robot for all 14/15 years. It's weird, for me it seems like just a few years ago I was on the team celebrating the 10th year.

14th Clark...I'm still older then FIRST not by much though.

[Matt Attallah]

Team 5 has been around since (the octagon ring) 98 - so that only makes them 7 years old - 8 including this year.

Many people make the mistake we where around since FIRST started - but 1998 was the last year they changed the numbers every year - so we got lucky!

I've been involved with FIRST for 6 years now (including this year). Does seem like the years really slip by when you are having fun (I can rember the Original ramp/hang from the bar year and the 4v0 years )

[Dave Flowerday]

My former team (now #74) has been around since the 1995 season (11 years) and have competed every year. Same school and sponsor since the beginning (Holland High School & Haworth). They've since added another sponsor though (Magna-Donnelly).

My current team (as Kelly said) is celebrating 10 years this year. It's quite interesting actually when I think back to 96, when such well-known names as Beatty and Wildstang were just rookies! In a lot of ways things were different back then but in a lot of ways they haven't changed much. I remember in 1995 that it would have been quite possible to meet every single team member at the Championship if you tried. I can't imagine trying anything like that today!

[Steve Yasick]

I just want to revive this thread. We are working on a press release regarding our program and want to have good information regarding just how unique a 10+ year run is in FIRST. Thanks for your help.

Steve Yasick