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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
To the previous comments, I'm not trolling anyone. I truly believe that FIRST (HQ and the community) needs to stop telling people it's a 6 week build season.
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For an example of this, I recall that 254 loaned HQ their 2014 World Championship robot to be put on display in Manchester. With the knowledge of that paired with the idea that FIRST touts the idea of the 6 week build season in marketing endeavors, imagine someone pitching a potential supporter of FIRST and including in the pitch
*points*
"Can you believe kids built that in 6 weeks?"
*disbelief on part of potential supporter*
In reading 254's documentation, you would know that disbelief at that quote is well-founded.
We have the habit of telling people how this will be the hardest thing their child will have ever done in their educational career (even though they go to one of the most rigorous schools in the country, the greater your participation on 422, the greater difficulty a student will have at succeeding at much else besides the robots and school). We are still able to bring together a large, strong, and passionate team that performs less bad every year for the most part.
More power to teams that actually tell potential stakeholders you only meet for 45 days plus events and actually stick to that. If you are a team that tells potential stakeholders you only meet for 45 days for build plus events and then you don't, and you keep doing that? You are part of the problem.