[CoClimber]

I'd like to weigh in here. Our team was at Curie and, while loud, the levels were tolerable. What got me very, very upset was when our team was high up in the stands for Einstein, they started playing bass heavy music before the final awards. Even though I was wearing earplugs, the bass was quite painful. The levels were so high that my ears were distorting the bass and generating harmonics. We decided that this was a dangerous situation and we removed our students before the final awards. This was my first year as mentor and I left thinking that I never want to come back, it was that bad. I honestly couldn't believe that FIRST would expose our students to an obviously unsafe condition.