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Originally Posted by ChrisCook
Teams with the most funding, mentors, and special interests do well and that’s how the program robotics programs continue. But for team like mine, the program is now nothing because we are losing our Head mechanic, head software and hardware, and team president.
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For those of you who went to UTC, 1568 was the little rookie team composed of 9 students (2 from junior high), 2 mentors and 3-4 parents. Our shirts were simple iron ons, nothing to fancy. Our robot was simple, a pulley mechanism to lift the arm(s). Our budget was 10,000 dollars. We did really well, placed as the top rookie team, and 13th rank going into alliance picking. We were the 8th seed alliance capptains and had to step out in our 2nd match because of a rookie mistake. So what do i think? our rag tag team of 9 people, only one which knew what was going on put together a very good robot using a very low budget. Maybe you think the values of FIRST has changed, but i do not. It's still about bringling together people to work on a common goal, and in the process promoting engineering.