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Originally Posted by Ken Delaney 357
"The new kit is a true robotics prototyping platform. It includes a variety of components from sensors, to motors, to metal, that represent current technology. This is not a toy."
Not a toy? Is this a bash on Vex?
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Ding Ding Ding! I think we have a winner here. From this statement, it seems to me that FIRST's thoughts on VEX are that it is essentially a jazzed up toy. Tell that to the many, many students learning from VEX or the school systems that have invested ten thousand(+) in VEX for their school systems.
All this is going to do is split people. You have the hundreds of current FTC teams using VEX that have invested a lot into this platform. They're not going to change when events are still prevalent and honestly just cheaper to run because they're not going through the "FIRST Machine."
Why the switch? Probably because FIRST just wasn't happy with the results they got from VEX. I don't know why though, plenty of students were being inspired using that system. Perhaps it wasn't attracting the fan base they thought it would. Either way, I don't think I can support any kind of platform that has been designed and developed to replace a perfectly valid solution that obviously works.