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Re: Quitting FRC for Vex?
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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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Or an FRC Team can take that same money and inspire at least that many students, but allow students to work in areas they are interested in with mentors from that career field, such as Video, Web Design, CAD, CAM, Machining, Welding, Journalism, Rapid Prototyping, Public Speaking, etc.
This line of reasoning continues to perplex me.
In VRC (and other programs), students are explicitly expected or encouraged to work with mentors to do:
  • Video,
  • Web Design,
  • CAD,
  • CAM,
  • Machining,
  • Welding,
  • Journalism,
  • Rapid Prototyping,
  • Public Speaking,
  • etc.
Where is the notion that they aren't supposed to do these things, or aren't rewarded if they do these things, coming from?

And, even if the program didn't encourage all of those activities (and more), why-o-why would anyone who wanted to do them feel that the program(s) in any way discouraged them from doing it?

It is possible in FRC to 100% avoid/ignore all of the activities in that list. It is possible in VRC (and other programs) to 100% embrace & enjoy all of those activities.

In my mind, FRC holds your hand (and pulls you) a bit more; while VRC opens the door (and invites you to walk through).

There is a difference, but nothing stops a group from using either program as a springboard and "going" as far as they like.

In some ways, because you can build, modify, and operate several simple VEX robots for the price of one FRC robot, experimenting with VEX robots opens more doors (cooperative behaviors, intramural contests, etc.) than experimenting with highly specialized FRC robots can open.

On the other hand, because FRC bots are bigger, they can enable some valuable real-world experiments and demos/attractions that a pure VRC bot (built from the VEX EDR parts used in VRC) can't.

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