[RonnieS]

After my experience mentoring inner city schools that have zero experience with any sort of true hands on activities, these are an amazing this. These kids didn't have the drive to even want to do something their school forced on them...but then they see these people (vex and Ri3d) doing these builds and it gives them hope that this challenge can be accomplished and then they take over from there. These are targeted to that audience. The teams that have zero engineers and a teacher as the head mentor who really doesn't want to be there. If you don't want your team to see them, don't show them to the team. But if you think that these limit teams abilities and thinking paths...please wait a few more years to collect good data. Last years game was fairly straight forward for the major designs; this led to a ton of people speculating that this persuaded a majority of the teams.
-Ronnie