[Kevin Sevcik]

Mike,

I think summing up the whole student/engineer centric discussion and coming down on either side of the debate is just asking for trouble. Your wording made it sound like the majority were in favor of engineer-centric teams. Near as I could tell from any of the numerous threads on the subject, there simply wasn't any consensus on the issue whatsoever. I think, instead, that most everyone agreed that the entire discussion was insignificant to the mission of FIRST and that teams should go with what works well for them and what they feel comfortable with.

To the issue at hand, I think the section could probably be trimmed and rolled into the section above it. The debate is there and real and to ignore it would be somewhat disingenuous, but I don't think it's so important as to merit an entire subsection of the article. Similar the section on the debate about collaboration. Important enough to get a mention in the section on collaboration, but doesn't need that many words covering it.