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Originally Posted by jman4747
As an exercise, what are some specific reasons why you would want to keep your FRC program? Why do you do FRC given the alternatives?
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1) The University of South Carolina
offers scholarships to FRC and FTC participants. It would be a little peculiar for us to be doing an on-campus outreach program that wasn't aligned with that.
2) Our leading sponsors are invested heavily in the FIRST program. Such a radical departure in our program would surely trigger a review of that financial support, and likely the loss of it.
3) Our build space was originally structured for FRC, and we didn't intend to rock the boat by doing a different program. (FTC probably would've been a good fit for us, if we were starting from a clean sheet--but we had five years of FRC legacy on campus from 2815's time on campus.)