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Re: Hosting A FRC Team @ A Middle School

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Originally Posted by ZipTie3182 View Post
Sorry if this seems really ignorant, but I thought to compete in FRC you had to be in grades 9-12? I must be wrong if some towns have middle school teams. This would actually be great for my team if we could allow in 7th and 8th graders. We have a really hard team recruiting since we're not through a school. Could someone verify this?
FIRST states that high school is FRC's intended audience, but makes no black and white rules about who can and cannot participate. Many teams limit participation to these age groups for their own reasons, but nothing says that your team has to.
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