Teams losing lots of seniors

[IMDWalrus]

Team 818 first competed in the 2002 season.

This year, we're losing all of the seniors who joined as freshmen. If I counted right, we've got a total of eighteen seniors (including myself) who are leaving this year, including our main driver, strategist, and more than a few subteam leads.

But we're a huge team. I don't think that any of the seniors are going to be irreplaceable - we've all been working with younger students and they should be ready to step up and fill the holes we've got now. I know that some of the seniors are planning on mentoring next year, while others (like me) are going to be leaving forever because of distance.

It's a big loss, but we should be able to survive it.

[tjciszczon]

Team 135 is osing every student member of its team. We are very unique and we have a new team of students every year, 22 this past year, 19 new students next year. Our team may have been in FIRST for 8 years, but every student is a rookie. Just because we are always rookies don't count us down. We work all year long and we are always a solid group of students. Every year we have rookie drivers, pit and everything. I think it shows the true skills of our mentors and the dedication our students have to the program and to FIRST.

[B. Flaherty]

Team 1626 only will be losing one senior. He pretty much taught us how to program, and just helped us, he let the sophomores run the team. All that remains as of right now is 5 Sophomores going to be juniors, and about 4 freshmen going to be Sophomores. 1626 is set for at least 2 more years. We'll have our "core" guaranteed for these next two years, and hope there will be new members to pass our knowledge on to.