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Without the game, NONE of that would happen.
We're all here to play in some way or another. The game is the means to an end.
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thats not why Im here. Im here to give students an opportunity to see what a career in engineering and science is like. the game is only the tail end of the engineering design cycle, where you take your design out into the real world, and see how it stands up against the competition
and (as I was trying to point out) its only a small part
if you have to win to be inspired, then only one team out of the 930 this year will be truely inspired.
if you have to place in the top half of the seeding rounds to feel successful, then half our teams are winners and half are losers.
the game is not what we are here for - the game is the end of the design cycle
designing robots is not what we are here for either - the robot design IS the means, the bridge we walk across to show the students what is LIKE to be an engineer.
The real end we are targeting here is a student who decides this stuff is incredibly awesome, and THIS is what they want to do for a career.