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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
With the amount of off-season events in the Philadelphia area during the fall, I don't really see the demand for such an event.
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The goal of this event is not to be another off season event, but to be more educational for new members. At all of the off season events I have attended, a few members (none of them new) get to drive and work on the robot, and everyone else sits in the stands and cheers. Usually smaller pits means only the bare minimum number of people get to be in the pits and see the robots. All of the new members end up sitting in the stands, watching robots they don't know play a game they don't understand.
This event would allow new members to get a better idea of how these robots work, and what makes them special. Instead of hearing people cheering and screaming in the stands, they get to hear other high school students talk about the robots into which they poured their heart for 6 weeks. I expect that this method of acclimatizing new members will be more inspiring and more rewarding (measured by # of returning new members) than a traditional off season event. If I were a new freshman thinking about joining the team and I saw all of these robots up close and how happy all of these students are because they joined their school's team, that would encourage me a lot more than seeing robots from far away doing something that I don't understand in a way I don't understand.