[Anna B.]

I have a question along these lines,
Our team is small and so everyone gets to go to a regional (providing they pay/raise enough money), and everyone does go. I was wondering if the students, on bigger teams, that do not go to regionals/championship, are they inspired? Or are these the kids that are just doing it to have an extracurricular activity on their college application?
For me, a major part of FIRST is what you learn from the competition, and feel that everyone should be able to experience the aura of a competition.
Also, if a team member doesn't go, they only know about their one team, not the multitudes of other amazing ones out there.
I am just curious
-Anna