[holygrail]

As FRC grows and potentially becomes more and more like other major school activities like sports, it makes me wonder whether FRC should account for school size. College and high school sports have divisions so schools compete with other schools with similar resources. Big schools compete with big schools and small schools against small schools.

Some teams in our area pull from 2 or more large high schools and some large schools have high tech facilities covering thousands of square feet with state-of-the-art equipment. Other schools have high school populations less than 500 (or even home school teams and 4-H clubs) and very limited resources. I’ve always been impressed with the ability of the small schools to remain competitive with larger schools with more resources, but as challenges become more difficult and the number of teams competing grows, it seems that the “resource gap” may become harder and harder to bridge.

For the record, I think that there are good arguments on both sides of the issue, but it just makes for interesting discussion.