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            <h2 class="center">History</h2>
            <p>
                Team 4384 started with 20 dedicated students on January 6th, 2012, the day before the Rebound Rumble FRC
                Kickoff.
                The first class of International Academy East graduated in 2012, as the East Campus held its first
                classes in 2008.
                Before 2012, we partnered with FRC Team 469, Las Guerrillas.
                However, once the official FRC Kickoff began in 2012, Team 469 realized that they didn't have the
                resources to support the vast amount of students who wanted to do FIRST, and we left to start our own
                FIRST team, The Exiles.
                We built our robot in a students' basement, and had a hard time adjusting to the lack of workshop,
                mentors, and resources.
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                In 2013, we changed our name to Benzene Bots.
                Our name reflects our passion for chemistry and the similarity a hex bolt has to the chemical benzene.
                AxelTech International provided us with mentors and a workshop to help us get on our feet, and it
                resulted in two awards that season.
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                In 2015, we lost our workshop at AxelTech International in the middle of the FIRST season due to lack of
                space.
                Martinrea started sponsoring us, and gave us a workshop at their plant.
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                In 2017, our Head Coach Mr. Shake retired, and passed the baton off to Mr. Kemp.
                Martinrea started building a new plant in Auburn Hills, and as a result we moved into Mr. Kemp's
                workspace until Martinrea could build their new location.
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                On January 4th of 2018, we moved into the new Martinrea Technical Center in Auburn Hills.
                Martinrea built us a workshop, gave us machinery, a practice field, mentors, and internship
                opportunities for our alumni.
                We are beyond grateful for their contribution to our success as a team.
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                In 2018, we also officially started our business team and began doing outreach.
                We won three business awards, submitted the Chairman's Award, and our first nominee for the Dean's List
                Award, Sanket Nayak, won at the Detroit World Championship.
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                In 2019, we had a rough year with our robot but we used it as a learning experience for the future of
                our team.
                At our second event which was in Alpena, we won Innovation in Control Award sponsored by Rockwell
                Automation since we had changed our robot and had a much better performance than our first event.
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                In 2020, we started the design for our robot and we did extremely well and came in 3rd overall for our
                performance and unfortunately did not make it past the first round
                However the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted our excellent season and the robot was sidelined.
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