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Re: Minimum age for FRC?
I looked at the rules between Bayou and CMP in 2015, and yes, the only really solid rule about age (at least at that time; standard warning about reading this year's admin manual website) was that the three drive team members who can touch the controls or game pieces must be of "pre-college" age. The reason I checked was that we had difficulty getting through inspection at Bayou because of our pickup, which featured about 20 spring-cushioned 10-32 bolts, used to grab both totes and RCs by the lips around the top of the game pieces. A middle-schooler (brother of a team member) CADded us a non-articulated pickup which we had machined by NASA, and used for several rounds at CMP. While we never signed him up in STIMS, he did come up to CMP driven by his parents, one of whom was a mentor of our team at the time. That family is now at the core of FTC 9958, "Redfish Robotics". OBTW, the original "sprung" pickup passed insepction at CMP much easier than at Bayou.
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