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Originally Posted by Ka'elaPruitt
Team spirit and teaching student to compete and not care about winning.
THAT is what these competitions are about.
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If there wasn't an emphasis on winning why do we keep score? Make no mistake, this is a competition and a competition has winners and losers. If your robot doesn't move no amount of good feelings is gonna make that anything other than a complete failure at the goals of this competition. FRC is an engineering challenge to further the goals of FIRST. It is not supplemental education, it is not a learning experience, it is a competition in which industry partners with students to inspire them and show them that engineering is cool. This isn't about teaching. This is about making kids realize that Andy Baker is cooler than whoever won Survivor (or whatever it is kids these days watch).
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Originally Posted by pfreivald
On what do you base that statement?
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A grotesque misunderstanding of the benefit of a practice bot.