19-04-2016, 20:20
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6th Gear Developer; Mentor
AKA: Blake Ross
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Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,939
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Re: What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?
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Originally Posted by Gefowl
Cannot agree with you more.
However, One of the odd things with FIRST is that it's difficult to convince middle/elementary aged kids (and in an extent parents) to invest their time in FIRST unless there is an FRC team they can see themselves joining later in high school. If there isn't an FRC team that students know they can join later being on a JFLL-FTC team may not seem to be worthwhile of their time.
To (quickly) make sustainable FIRST programs it almost has to begin with an FRC team. I think FIRST needs to put more emphasis on the importance the lower levels of FIRST are to a successful and sustainable FRC team to rookie teams.
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I have never encountered that mindset. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I do think (in my limited experience) it is pretty rare.
Have you encountered it often?
Blake
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