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Re: should there be a award for programming skill?

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Originally Posted by Damien1247 View Post
While you may have had access to all of these resources some schools do not offer AP Calc, Ap Physics, or even drafting. So while it is nice that you had those resources available to you but you assume everyone has those same resources. [cut]

Your basic assumption that everyone has the same resources you did is not correct, some of the teams out there scrape by for everything and some of the educational systems, particularly in inner city schools need FRC because otherwise those students would have NO exposure to any engineering education.
I come from one of the most competitive public schools in my state (one of the only 8 public schools to have an "excellent" rating for its entire existence (and that of the rating system), and one of only 24 for last year), but since we are relatively small (1050 students last year), we have AP English 11, 12, AP AB and BC Calculus, AP Art, and AP Biology; no other AP classes are offered, and the AP Calculus classes are on a track such that you can only take them as a senior. In addition, we have Programming 1 and 2, but they're in C# which doesn't adequately prepare the students for FIRST. It's a shame, really, that we don't have a better program than this for being "competitive," so I'd be sad to see other schools... but I hope we're the exception to the rule.
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