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Re: Keep FIRST in Michigan (FiM) from killing FIRST Lego League

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Originally Posted by MichaelMcQuinn View Post
I personally think FIRST should axe FTC, and make Jr. FLL expand to all of elementary, and FLL is all of middle school, and FRC is all of high school.
I hope they won't, for a couple of reasons:

1. FLL is a good challenge for elementary school kids. I've been mentoring an FLL team of 4th and 5th graders, and although they tend to need someone to keep them focused, they're definitely more than able to understand what they're doing, and they enjoy it. I don't know a lot about Jr FLL, but from what I've seen, I don't think they'll be getting the same thing out of it.

2. FRC is not affordable in all areas. It's just too expensive. FTC can reach students that otherwise won't have the ability to participate in FIRST.

It's definitely not an easy problem though. I did FLL in 7th grade and found it both challenging and enjoyable (although we had almost no adult help, so it was more difficult because of that). I also see the issue with having 4th graders competing against 8th graders.

Having different competitions for age groups within FLL (e.g. 4-6th grade and 7-8th grade compete separately) might be one way to do it, but then there would be a problem for mixed age teams...
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