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Originally Posted by Undertones
Does anybody know what is happening with team 188?
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I've been invovled with 188 for the last eight years, but I am only an alumnus and am not aware of a lot of the finer administrative details associated with where the team stands this year - so take from my post what you will.
The last official position I had heard from a teacher on the team was that 188 was cancelling its three registrations (GTR-E, Waterloo, Western Canada). This was done because of the uncertainty associated with the labour strife and the potential for losing all money spent on event registrations if the labour issues continue beyond the build season.
Where things go from here remains up in the air.
That said, some of the senior students have taken it upon themselves to try and make the most of the situation and run a mock season. They plan to deconstruct the game, discuss design direction, and potentially even conceptually design a robot that would succeed at competing in this year's challenge. In doing so, they hope to expose some of the newer students to the timeline of an FRC season in addition to teaching them transferable skills with value beyond the mock season experience. If things do somehow work out in time, perhaps they will even be prepared to jump right in to building the real thing.