[Whippet]

The age for FRC participation seems to have been intentionally left as vague as possible to ensure that everyone who wants to is allowed. That being said, the FRC game manual has for the past few years stated that driver positions are limited to "Pre-college" team members. My old team, 3043, interpreted this as "any student that has not yet reached college-going age." This is how I was able to be human player in 7th grade, and being on the field really sparked my desire to continue my FRC participation for as long as I possibly could, and was a factor in my being elected co-captain of team 4301 as a freshman. It was truly a transformative experience, and I would encourage anybody in the position to try to do so. I do seem also seem to recall seeing an all middle school FRC team at kickoff 2013 in Lubbock.

I would recommend that we try to maintain our driver selection criteria on the skills of the driver, rather than the age of the candidate. My teams have found success there; YMMV.

Source: That's me feeding in the bottom left corner at 2:35 in the video.