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SPI Requirement To Purchase
Posted by rob kelly at 2/9/2001 12:38 PM EST


Coach on team #367, Delaware Destroyers, from Seaford Senior High School and Dupont, NASA, JRM High Performance Machine, Trigli.



We are a second year team, located in a very rural area. We have very limited machining capabilities. We have one engineer volunteering about 1-2 hrs. per week. The team is run by myself with another teachers assistance. This requirement has cost us time and we have no alternative. In addition this arrangement is more costly than for example buying bearings or sprockets from McMaster Carr. I don't believe this practice is reflective of commercial enertprize either. My partner believes as has been mentioned here that this is a scheme to prop up small parts. Teams similar to ours in composition are the ones footing the bill along with the rookie teams. This detracts from the positive elements of FIRST. If they were that concerned why not package all legal parts in the kits and make only those parts illegal. My team should not be penalized because we lack the facilities or hands on sponsorship of an engineering giant. I'll get off the soap box now.
Thanks
Rob


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