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Re: FIRST rule regarding team membership
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Originally Posted by Wetzel View Post
FRC is intended as a high school competition. It is not intended for, or safe, for K-6.

Wetzel
Reply #1

If young Mozart and Picasso offer to create theme music and artwork for your pit and presentation/exhibits, don't turn them away.

If young Gauss or young Maria Agnesi offer to help with the mathematics of your autonomous programming, don't turn them away.

There are many safe and rewarding ways for students of all stripes to benefit from FRC - without ever coming within 50 feet of a machine tool or FRC robot.

Reply #2

I know that saying that is it possible for any/all K-12 students to participate in FRC is 99.9999% a wild exaggeration. I am counting on the audience to understand the difference between possible and desirable.

What is more important is that I said that in an attempt to firmly drive home the point that FRC is not limited to school-sponsored teams whose students come from one and only one (high) school. My guess is that cracking that mental block would open the door to inspiring somewhere between 10 and 20% more students and/or starting up another 5% more teams.

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