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Re: The negative effects of FRC

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Originally Posted by gblake View Post

B) How do you think you would feel (then and now) if instead your last year/season had focused on getting as many non-STEM students as possible to try STEM things that they hadn't done before, while also helping build a fun, adequate, middle-of-the-road robot? If you did do that, along with everything else you described, my advice is to stop volunteering for too much bad stress. If you didn't, I'm sure that FIRST wants participants to use the FRC program to place a greater emphasis those non-STEM students than participants place on the robot.

Creating the robots and going to competitions is an FRC tool, not the FRC goal. It's very easy to shed bad stress if you look at things that way. Shedding bad stress, is a good thing.

Blake
Yes, why would someone ever chase excellence? That sounds rather uninspiring. We should definitely all sit down and hold hands singing kumbayah, because anything that stressed you out too much is never worth it.

If that was the sentiment of a team that I joined in high school, I would have never stayed in or cared about this program past graduation.
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