[Abhishek R]

The question we should be asking is why should students interested in robotics be penalized gradewise at all? What's the drawback to making robotics a positively weighted course?

Rigor can't be a factor because at least within my district from personal experience I can think of some positively weighted (5.0) courses that are not as challenging as our robotics program, and I would imagine the same is true for many other teams.