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Originally Posted by 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
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Why does FRC require that high school students drive the robots? After all, if you take the "inspiration" maxim to its logical conclusion, there's no particular reason that they should. The only real reason I've been able to think of is that it would look really bad to the viewing public if adults were driving the robots.
Here's something really controversial - has anyone ever dared to consider that, in this case, the great unwashed masses might have a point?