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Originally Posted by jman4747
The following are my observations regarding the city of Atlanta:
1. Correct me if I'm wrong but school systems are not cooperative at all. Like AT ALL.
2. Faculty at many schools aren't usually very excited. Rookie teams seem to loose teachers before funds and outside mentors.
3. The above leads to team attrition; kills student/mentor knowledge base.
4. It's hard to constantly find the kind of money you really need to run an FRC team. Can't buy many parts as a result (among other things).
5. There are very few teams east, west, and south of the inner city.
6. It's not easy to get milling, turning, or sheet metal work done in the time frame FRC teams need in this city. Robots therefore can't be all that advanced and few teams can house or afford a mill/lathe.
7. To many engineers in and around this city don't know about FRC.
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Regarding #2: Based on what I know from my experience with both VEX and FRC, I think that a lot of schools (public and private) that already have VEX/TSA view those things as an adequate replacement for an FRC team. Therefore they're just not interested in having another robotics activity in their school, especially when it would cost so much more.