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Re: This year's "game" is a job, not a game

I know FIRST wants to draw more excitement and attention to Engineering/STEM but it's still engineering. You probably won't be working on a robot disc shooter or foam/exercise ball thrower ever. You might work on the machine that forms the plastic for the disc, or test materials to find the best composition of plastic to make it out of. Maybe you would prefer working on the power system for the plant or analyzing and optimizing the work flow?

Point is if you can't handle this maybe slightly less exciting game you get your excitement from the wrong place. I'm excited about getting twice as good at Labview than I was in 2014 ago and that my team can finally use vision processing. I'm excited our team gets to run and compete in FRC with more than $1,000 spending money this year and that we will be mentoring an FTC team starting this summer.

So thank you GDC for more great learning experiences and a chance to apply my technical skills with a team, and for giving me an amazing excuse to hang out with so many engineers.
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