[scaredutensil2]

Hey all. I'm also a member of this team, and to be honest with you, this is still going on. A lot of bickering has occurred, and we barely have the resources to have one team supported, let alone two. We have a lot of interest, but we don't have enough to form two teams. There are a lot of political reasons for this decision that I personally know about, and are too personal to go into here, but I believe it was a ploy or incredibly ill-informed decision. I don't know if it was done through sheer incompetence or malice, but it has been completed already.

I don't understand what we are supposed to do, we as students are being forced around by this other team who is requiring access to our tools and our materials and our mentors, and it is a strain on our team which was already stretched far too thin last year.

I don't understand why this decision was made and nobody will tell anyone, it seems very shady and it scares me that First allowed this without taking a good hard look at our team last year.

We barely had enough to fund our team last year, and this year it is far more difficult, because we have another organization competing for all the same grants, and as a rookie team they are more appealing and more malleable from sponsorships.

I wish this was different but there seems to be no way to change this.