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Originally Posted by 2544HCRC
FIRST has a bad reputation already in most school circles as being expensive and difficult to be competitive, at least that has been my experience when talking with principals and school board members.
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The real world is expensive, and difficult to compete in. "This is hard!" should be a call-to-arms, not an excuse to do something else. Students who go on to compete in technical fields should be well prepared for this, else they get steamrolled when they show up to college or the workforce. I tutor for introductory engineering classes here at RPI, and I see a lot of kids get steamrolled because no one ever taught them how to work. I was most inspired by my high school teachers that pushed me, the ones that made me work to find the solution in math class, and the ones that made me write draft after draft of my paper. I know a lot of teacher's take pride in getting the best out of their students. If the teachers have to work hard, think of how hard their students will be pushed?
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
-JFK, Rice University September 12, 1962
Just my 2 cents.
(Best of luck in FTC & BEST, I'm sure your FRC experiences will serve you well!)