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Originally Posted by MrTechCenter
Is there really not a single FRC team in Nebraska? Even Alaska has a team!
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Originally Posted by faust1706
It's largely due to Nebraska being so heavily involved in 4H, which essentially accomplishes the same thing as FIRST.
I like to believe that nebraska hasn't adopted FRC is because of the cost. 4H costs next to nothing for groups. The only money that groups need are for their projects, which can be as big or as small as they like. If you were to suddenly make an FRC team, you'd need to raise thousands of dollar simply to be allowed to compete. There's no need to throw a system out that is already a great success.
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Nebraska, much like Iowa, doesn't really have the population density to support FRC teams (outside of a few locations). Additionally, NE seems to be pretty covered by VEX.
Taken from robo-events:
http://imgur.com/0Q7bB1W
(This includes all VEX IQ and VEX U)
I know FTC Iowa has been training volunteers for at least two years to up FTC in Nebraska but according to
FIRST there are only 13 FTC teams.
EDIT: I'm horribly off topic of the original thread. My bad!