[wilsonmw04]

We took our FTC team to the VA&DC finals at JMU over the weekend. We had a great time showing off our robot and the kids had a blast driving it :-)
I found out something interesting while i was talking to the coaches/parents of the FLL teams: They are really, really excited about the FTC format. They see it as the next logical step as their kids outgrow FLL. Some of the questions they asked were, "how much does it cost?" "is there a Project that goes with the robot?" "how much time does it take to make one if those?"

They were quite pleased with the answers i gave them. Look for a lot of new teams in the future.

PS: another observation i saw was a lot of the teams were not affiliated with a school. All the students went to the same school, but they found it very difficult to work within the confines of the school's rules. Instead of jumping through the hoops, they did it themselves. Has anyone noticed that as well? Does anyone know if FIRST sees this as a problem?