Thread: Elementary to Middle to High School Pathway
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Re: Elementary to Middle to High School Pathway
In my experience, FLL is perfectly suitable for students up to 9th grade. FRC 1038 has started a number of FLL teams in our district - the number was 16 when I coached FLL back in 2008-9. Many of the kids on 1038 are FLL vets, resulting in less of a learning curve. I coached a BEST team last year after moving from OH to TN, and I gotta admit that I am not a big fan - I put FLL technology over BEST by far! The NXT platform is more relavent to FRC and allows more advanced programming and build then BEST - but it is not free, like BEST. If BEST openned up the rules more to take advantage of the VEX platform, I would be all for it! I started an FRC team at the same school I coached BEST last year, the kids were blown away at the difference...
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2011-Present
Founder & Team Lead, FRC Team 4740 - Spartabots, Nashville, TN
Founder, FRC Team 3945 - Cobrotics, Whites Creek, TN
Mentor, FRC Team 4306 - Robo Komodos, Franklin, TN

2005-2011
Mentor, FRC Team 1038 - Thunderhawks, Liberty Township, OH