[Mr. Van]

One of the issues that this brings up is how FRC events are perceived by the viewing public. Over and over again, I hear people in the stands say "There is no way students made that by themselves." In just about every case, they are correct.

But that's the point. This is what makes FRC unique (for the most part).

It's very hard for the vast majority of the public to translate "Robotics Competition between high schools" to mean "Robotics Competition between teams consisting of professional engineering mentors, sponsoring companies and high school students" instead of "between high school students".

- Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox