[EricH]

Originally Posted by ZipTie3182

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?

Just to confirm what the others have said: The only distinction FIRST makes, at least with FRC, is that a student is pre-college. (JFLL, FLL, and FTC are a little stricter, IIRC). Any further minimum age is left up to the teams; I joined in grade 8, along with a couple other students on 330. It was several years before another student under grade 9 joined officially, though.