05-10-2011, 11:22
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Professor of Thinkology, ThD
AKA: @taylorstem
 FRC #3487 (Red Pride Robotics) Team Role: Teacher
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Indianapolis, IN, USA 46227
Posts: 4,597
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Re: WE'VE DONE IT!
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Originally Posted by 1075guy
I'm not so much trying to say that FIRST can't scale to being in every high school, so much as I'm saying that FIRST as we know it (with kickoff, KoP, 6 week build, 6 week competition season + a 400 team CMP) can't scale to that level. Theres simply not enough money, manpower, and space for it to make sense. Something would have to give. Breaking it into regions, as has happened with FiM and MAR is a step in the right direction of improving cost-effective scalability, but even that model is still a long way from being able to support a team at every school.
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I agree, but remember - FIRST is not FRC.
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