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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
At a recent gathering of mentors in Indiana [mostly FRC but with other programs represented as well], a recurring theme became apparent. For whatever reason, only FRC seems to have an explicit and highly-celebrated goal of doing outreach and "making it loud" beyond the competition community.
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This is an interesting point, and I've got to say my main draw to FIRST is much more towards making a "better" person than making engineers (it's still a draw). I've been struggling with this for a while. From my limited view of 1 season, I'm not sure quite what to gather, but it's the principal reason I'm "more" involved in FRC than FTC.
What I have noticed as a volunteer in all kinds of roles (incl. judge) this year, is that there certainly are FTC teams that "make it loud" and way louder than some FRC teams.
The only difference I can think of that has this effect is simply the number of students. Since there are so many more students in FRC it's easier for FRC teams to "use this resource" in doing more things.
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Discussions I was part of mostly focused on needing to get the FLL "feeling" to continue through the other programs.
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What's the FLL "feeling"?
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Maybe we should also work on getting some of the existing FRC culture to propagate back the other way.
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Yup! FTC Inspire Award winners, should really hook up with other FTC teams and help establish a good outreach program. At our team's school, we have 4 FTC teams and just started a FRC team. We're hoping to build an environment where the FTC teams start to build the outreach/service aspects but then really force them to go wild in FRC.