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I haven't though into this too much but wouldn't a nicely writted waiver accomplish the same goal for FIRST? Put the responsibility of child safety on the team instead of FIRST. Seriously, why is FIRST taking responsibility for this? What if a kid's finger got sucked into the provided gearbox and ripped off? Would FIRST be responsible then? What if at a competition a couple students were carrying the robot, one tripped over the field entrance bar, and broke his neck, or hit his head on some other part of the field and got brain damage, maybe a coma even? It would not take much for this to happen to a person. Who's responsible then? There are a million other things concerning child saftey than adult predators.

Also, did anyone read how they are going to randomly audit teams and perhaps ban them from the competition if they are not truthfully naming all their helping adults. That scares me. Because say your team leader does not have a check conducted on everyone who is supposed to have one. And then they come to your pit and ask who helped you build the robot. Then a student naturally says all these people, and then FIRST goes and checks how many people got screened, see it isn't enough, and then bans the team from competition. Then the mentor and everyone else on the team gets mad at the student who told FIRST all the people who help. What a disaster!