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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto
IIRC, Vex Robotics Competition involves a ton of copy-paste, most robots look identical by Championships, teams are required to use pretty much just the Vex kit, and students are still inspired.
I know the comparison is not apples to apples, but it's close. Close enough for me to appreciate that inspiration is our end goal, and the road there might not look entirely like I'd want it to.
-Mike
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Yes inspiration is very important. The other skills required to take those mostly COTS designs through evolution are important.
Is giving the students who have the resources at their disposal to fabricate a challenge not important? We can still have both of the above values and end up completely removing, even make negative, the aspect were we challenge students to fabricate. Is FIRST FRC okay with that knowing we already inspire at FLL/FTC in a similar way. Are we okay with subtracting that more adult opportunity at this level as well. Possibly forcing these students to wait until college (maybe beyond) or hope they have a great Makerspace nearby with mentoring? If we encourage the removal of fabrication then anyone that went from FLL->FTC->FRC is really coming in with an advantage. The skill sets are very much like each other because there's no boundless new technical example there anymore.