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I think that with all that has been said, it has been narrowed down to two main reasons. one for why mid school student can, and one why they can't drive.

1.The best driver of the middle school students should be chosen because then, if they are exceedingly good at driving, they can be driver the next 4 or more years too. (I personally do not like this one because once you find your driver, he is then the driver for the next 4 years too and therefore, although your team would have a great advantage with the very experienced driver, no one else gets a chance to be driver untill he/she leaves for college)
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2.The best driver of the oldest students should be driver because it is their last year on the team and everyone will get their shot at driver when they are a senior. (Although this one is giving more people a chance at ebing driver, the team has a driver who is brand new at it every year and this gives them a possible disadvantage. one way to solve the disadvantage if a team ran this way would be to train the students interested in being driver during their junior year and then, in their senior year they would be more experienced)
using the above two things, I have come up with, what I think would be the best way for a team to chose drivers, it keeps an experienced driver in the hot seat, but also gives many team members a chance to drive.

3. When a student shows interest in being driver, he/she is trained driving a robot (possibly on the EDUbot or bots from the teams previous years when this years bot is not available) and then when driver picking time comes around: a sophomore is chosen for the secondary or helper driver, and a junior or senior is chosen for main driver. This would keep the main drivers trained while also keeping sure that everyone gets a fair chance at being driver.

this sure is turning out to be an interesting topic.