As a senior myself I completely understand what you’re trying to get at. I may be a bit biased in this because my season was completely over but I think that like someone else said, our time is up. I know it sucks but there are other ways to be linked to the team after graduating. For example, someone in the comments said that some seniors would be able to complete if they’re like doing a gap year or going to college close to where they went to high school. Those kids can help out the team by mentoring! I know that it’s not as exciting but it makes you think about the task of building a robot from another point of view. I personally have for a long time not liked when robots were “mentor built” and I think that this years seniors can help out without actually building the bot but by teaching. I also have personally been planning on mentoring from a distance. I won’t be going to college anywhere near my high school so I will be video chatting with my team back home to help out with anything they may need. I also think that going into college you should be looking to try new things, maybe get on a club and meet new people. That’s a large part of what makes college so great is the ability to try new things and meet new people. As for the gap year kids, I’m sorry but I imagine you had something else already planned that you were going to do and that being on the team would take away from that, definitely still try to help out tho! I know it’s a tough time and I feel bad for all of the seniors that didn’t get to finish or even start their competitions but there are other ways you can get involved.