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Re: A Request

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
You're mistaking the impact on students with the actual goal of culture change.
Not necessarily. The impact on students is part of the point of culture change. They are linked. I do see what you mean, but it's not entirely accurate. There are some areas where the FTC team is the all-star, the cool thing to do, and are changing the culture more so than the (now non-existent) FRC team. Perhaps on the average you're right, but it's not appropriate to make as a blanket statement (and you likely aren't making such a general statement) but clearly people are taking it as such.

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Originally Posted by Foster View Post
/Vex is to FRC like Varsity to wanna-Varsity, FRC robots lumber across a basketball court like the Seniors League at the Y.
fire with fire, man. not off to a good start, and clearly losing me (I'm somewhat in the middle) as a fan.

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Oh yea three robots on an aliance, so two can be lame and one can score. Not in Vex and FTC world.
You clearly haven't seen this year's game. In general, I agree but hopefully more games will be like this years. And this years FRC game was way better (IMO) because of its requirements of good teamwork than other years.


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So FTC and VEX is accessable to average Mom / Dad / Grandparent.
Good point.


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Oh but FRC worlds!!! Sorry, VEX Worlds is bigger than FRC, but wait, 65 FRC regionals vs 500 VEX events? Not quite the same face time. We run more FTC / VEX competitions within 2 hours of Philly than FRC does in a three state area. (No disrespect MAR, your district program rocks)
The discussion regarding "culture change" does not involve more, it looks for a cool factor. For the average person, FRC looks cooler than FTC. By average person, I mean someone that doesn't know what it takes to build a robot. FRC is a better hook (for most people) than FTC. Albeit, FTC (and likely VEX) is still certainly a hook for others.

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So, don't mock the FTC / VEX programs.
I don't think he was mocking either program, he seemed to be indicating what he thinks are differences.


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We are trying to change a world, less than 3% of the students in schools have a chance to do the coolest thing in the world, COMPETITION ROBOTICS.
BOTH OF YOU ^ THIS. SERIOUSLY. you know what helps to make a change, if people on the same side stop blowing up at each other and taking things so personal. The tone of both posts seem to be aggressive, if this is not your intent, I'd suggest revising them or taking a minute or two of proofreading.

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Why slam a roboteer and a robotics program that has the same goals and objectives?
So why are you?
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