Disbanded Teams

[Sunstroke]

Originally Posted by ay2b

It's interesting when FIRST allows teams that switch schools to keep the same number and when they don't. I'm not sure what that decision is based on. I've heard that the number stays with the school, but I know of two examples (and therefore suspect it's happened a lot more) where that was not the case -- all the mentors stayed together, but switched schools, and kept the same team number. In both these cases, the old school no longer had a team.

In 1994, Team 144 was with Walnut Hills High School. At some point after that, they switched to Northwest High School. I don't know which school they were with in 1996.

In 2000, Team 488 was Redmond High School. They didn't participate in 2001. In 2002, Team 488 reformed with Franklin High School.

Team 190 was originally a pairing of Doherty High School and WPI; however, that shifted to Mass Academy and WPI in 1994 and 1995

Although, Mass Academy is possibly facing closure, which means that a high school shift might happen again...