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Re: Engineering and Robotics program in danger

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Originally Posted by xitaqua View Post
Hah....hah....there could be a 5th year.

Well I am just giving you examples, some teams continue on to college....
I know of a group of FIRST Robotics Seniors that go to same college and now work on Quad-copters and participate on Quad-copter competitions, while other go to do the summer camp as I mentioned or others go on to mentor their old FIRST Robotic teams. Are the seniors on your team involved, or does it stop at the 4th year of High School ?.
If there's no fifth year, what happens to the freshmen who learned about BEST in 2015? What do they do their junior and senior years, if there's no year 5-6? (Am I the only one that doesn't get this?)

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Originally Posted by xitaqua View Post
You bring a good point in the cost density, and that's one of the things we look comparing the total cost of the program compared with total volunteers hours the team do for a season. ... ... So in this case the lower cost program is more efficient.
Certainly, lower-cost programs can be more efficient. My question relates to how the 12-student cap affects cost density. I can run a 20-student team on much the same budget that I do a 10-student team, meaning that the cap that doubles overall cost.

What does a virtual learning community actually do?

EDIT: we appear to have hijacked this thread...
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