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Re: Barriers to Entry: Why schools DON'T join FIRST
artdutra04 hit some great points. There's a lot of talk about expense and lack of mentors, and those are indeed legitimate concerns, but don't underestimate the more "mundane" difficulties faced by teams, like lack of work space.
Our rookie year (2007), team 2007 (funny coincidence, eh?) was lucky enough to be given a spare classroom for a workshop. This past year, though, a county magnet school (somewhat ironically, science-, math-, and technology-oriented) displaced us, and we were relegated to, well, a closet.
Were we crippled? No, we managed, but it was a severe inconvenience.
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