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What happens at the competition reflects very little of what happens inside of the robotics room. The competition is 2 days out of an entire year that you cannot see.
Your point is that having the competition as a social event is a bad thing because... dancing doesnt promote engineering or science (unless you want to get into the physics and chemical influences that cause dancing to occur, but thats beyond the scope of this thread)
The thing is though, some of the most engineering-inspired students on the team look forward to the competitions because the whole point of it is having fun. Like any competition, the point is to win, and if you lose you still had fun trying. Not every student who is at the competition can be serious- even if they want to- because there isn't enough room in the pits, or there are already too many people on the field or whatever.
think about it. if they give a SPIRIT AWARD out at the competitions, wouldn't you think the people at FIRST are promoting the idea of dancing you drop?