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Originally Posted by Ed Law
I believe you are violating CD rules for creating a separate account to post this. It sounds to me that you are part of a FIRST team.
I am glad you are bringing something to discuss on CD. However using a sensational title and less than accurate facts and no data to convince people is not the way to do it.
If you want to discuss this, please state all the facts and not just the ones that you want people to know. People outside of Michigan are not going to understand it completely. You are using scare tactics and asking people to sign a petition without giving them accurate and complete facts.
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Thank you. The entire starting post was rapid-fire generalization, which is both annoying and misleading. If anything, FiM is making a disjointed, poorly organized system into a streamlined, effective one. If FIRST wants to have a progression of programs that actually works, then FiM is going in the right direction by changing the age ranges. It'll probably be a rough adjustment, but it's an adjustment for the better.
FiM isn't killing FLL, here's what they're doing:
1)giving FLL a different age range, one that will even out competition between teams with older and younger students.
2)smoothing out the progression of programs to have no strange gray areas.
3)offering FTC the opportunity to no longer be that awkward stage between FLL and FRC by giving it its own unique age range.
4)pushing students to learn more about complex problem solving and critical thinking at a younger age by putting them in a more competitive setting at a younger age.