1992 Team + 681 + 2047 = 4302 | Anyone have pictures?

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After realizing that my school has had 4 FRC teams over the years (including one in 1992…) I am curious to find out more about these teams.

The teams sponsor from 1992 is my physics teacher, and I know the team became defunct due to inability to dedicate time (6 children, etc, probably among other factors as well)

Team 2047 was a collaboration of our school and many other CPS teams – also defunct.

However, team 681 is a complete mystery. I wonder where this team came from, why it ended, and what their robot looked like.

Does anyone have footage / photos from these teams? I am especially interested in footage from the 1992 team and the ones from 681 as 2047 is on thebluealliance.

Besides that, I just found it fascinating and a good representation of the problem in first with team sustainability. Hopefully we can keep this team going for many years to come (broke the previous record by transcending rookie team status :D)

I also wonder whether I should try reaching out to our previous sponsors and seeing if they would like to sponsor us again. If they remember us.

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687 was never from Chicago, they are a current team in California.

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687 is probably not the team you are looking for. FRC687 is from California Academy of Math and Science (CAMS), Carson, CA, known as the Nerd Herd, and can usually be relied on to at least appear in the L.A. eliminations. They’ve been around since 2001.

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Apologies. I meant 681. Corrected in main thread to avoid confusion

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You sure 687 is the right number? 687 is the Nerd Herd, a current team out of California, and that number is well above the 1998 team shuffle cutoff.

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Yes, yes. I double checked the team number and I still managed to put the wrong number down :confused: 681 was the correct number.

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FWIW, 681 would have been circa 2001-2002 rookies.

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681 would have been a 2001 rookie, but according to wayback machine for FIRST, there is no record of that team…

http://web.archive.org/web/20010405125226/http://www.usfirst.org/frcweb/FMPro?-db=webteams.fp5&-lay=webwithrelated&-sortfield=Team%23&-max=all&-find=&-format=teampages.htm

Seems to be a ghost?

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681 competed at the Midwest Regional in 2001

Arial Phone/Computer Associates/Whitney Young Magnet HS/ Chicago Public Schools

The Wayback link is to a list of team websites. It isn’t a team list.