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Originally posted by Gabriel
I've always wondered how those teams with 150 kids can possibly function. Even on the teams i've been with (25 people or less) it dwindles down to a core group of maybe 8. I don't think FIRST has any effect whatsoever if you've got an engineer and five kids building a robot and 100 groupies.
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Your post addresses two issues, but the second has been beaten to death twice.
I don't think it's our place to determine who benefits from FIRST or how they benefit. If people are making a commitment to be there, in whole or in part, as groupies or something else entirely, that's their prerogative. Just because we don't understand the potential benefit this program is having on them because they're not just like us doesn't mean that it's not having a benefit.