In the fall of 2007, Reid Brechner, a freshman at Messalonskee High School, went to Miss Luce, a math and computer science teacher who worked at Messalonskee High School, and asked if she wanted to help him start a robotics team. Of course, she said "YES!". Little did she know what this one word would mean.

In the rookie season, the team had no idea what they were doing. They started with less than 10 students and two mentors, all of whom had a lot of enthusiasm, but not much direction. At their very first game reveal in Manchester, there were some notions about being overwhelmed, but mostly the team was just excited to finally get started. Two things became very apparent in the first few design meetings: One, they needed some engineers and two, six weeks was not going to be enough time.

However, the team had a very positive experience at its first Regional Competition for FIRST Overdrive in Manchester, NH, competing in the quarterfinals and winning the Rookie Inspiration Award!

Starting the second year meant new challenges with fundraising, community service projects, and recruiting more members. The team decided to attend a different Regional Competition to play Lunacy, and chose Boston to spread their wings.

The team left Boston wanting more...another regional? Not this year, but the solution was off-season events! BattleCry at WPI, Mayhem in Merrimack, and Bear Brawl all provided the team with an opportunity to make new alliances and introduce more team members to the competition arena.

Breakaway was our Break Through year. Community support and aggressive fundraising allowed us to attend seven events including our first trip to the World Championship held in Atlanta, Georgia.

At the Boston Regional Competition, we got our first taste of winning with our first Finalist Award in our short history! We were the third pick of our alliance, and we made some great friends and partners in FRC Team 1511, Rolling Thunder.

This year also marked our first of many Spirit Awards. At Battlecry 11, our PA-POW cheer was born! In the off-season events that followed, we were recognized as a spirited, competitive team. 

This year we continued with our community service efforts, assisting members of our team receive their Eagle Scout Awards. We participated in the Beta Day hardware test competition in September and won the coveted Best Team Costume at River Rage 2010.

We also stepped up our FIRST responsibility in spreading the FIRST message in our community. We mentored an FLL team, demonstrated our robot for elementary students, and represented FIRST at our local engineering expo.

The Logomotion season saw our team roster soar to almost 40 members! We set a goal during Opening Weekend of making it to Einstein and never looked back. Although we didn't quite make it to Einstein, we did attend five events, including our first season of two Regional competitions. The mini-bot really taught our team a lot about the importance of the endgame. We definitely under-estimated its importance in the beginning of the season. The challenge of the deployment system was definitely a fun one to take on!

About half way through this build season, we realized we had enough resources (time and money) to build a twin robot. Although this is not a new idea for any team, this project really elevated our team to a new level. Not only did it allow much more student involvement, it also provided us with a robot that we could demonstrate to other interested teams.

Logomotion also proved to be another award-studded season for us, including another Finalist award at the Boston Regional competition. We also were recognized three times with the Team Spirit Award, as well as our first Coopertition Award at the Boston Regional. We were finalists at all 3 off-season events we attended: Battlecry 12, Beantown Blitz, and River Rage. This season was also the first time we submitted for the Chairman's Award. Although we didn't earn the award at WPI, we were recognized at River Rage with the Legacy Award.

With our twin robot, we had an opportunity to invite a pre-rookie team to compete with us at off-season events. It only took one meeting for us to find our perfect match at Spruce Mountain High School. They were already a competitive Vex team, so taking the jump to FRC made sense! They came with us to Beantown Blitz to get a taste of FRC, and then kept our twin robot all summer to learn everything they could. They attended Mainely SPIRIT and River Rage using our twin robot, so they were ready to roll when Kickoff 2012 came around.

The team really wanted to find a better way to spread the FIRST message, so when the opportunity appeared to host Maine's FIRST off-season event, we jumped at the chance! Mainely SPIRIT was held on Saturday, September 24th! At this event, we had 3 pre-rookie teams participate! All 3 of those teams are participating in the 2012 season, and this event provided them with the opportunity to learn all about FIRST.

This is also the first season where some of our graduating member have been with us all four years. Although it proved difficult to say goodbye, we learned a lot from each of them, and look forward to the opportunity of having them all back as mentors!

In 2012, we wanted to welcome our new pre-rookie friends to the season, so we hosted a Team Training Event in December 2011 to prepare. We provided training on electrical design, mechanical design basics, and programming. We also introduced the other teams to the Kinect Software.

We are looking forward to another strong showing for Infinite Loop in 2012!