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Mike Im sure you and I are not alone in our thinking, And dont get me wrong we still have great respect for FIRST and the "Deanology " of Robotics but we the Adults are continualy under pressure to achieve the goals of FIRST.
FIRST is truely a learning expierience for the students but its an arduous mind numbing task for many Adults. This is my 4th year in FIRST and each year is harder than the last, is it too much to ask " could we try EASY for a change".
Some times I get the feeling its a test for the Adults to see how far "we" can go. I love the concept of working with and teaching students how to overcome because as we teach so do we learn.
Difficult is easy, impossible just takes longer, and 6 weeks is still 6 weeks. The regionals are a proving ground for our robot and if we do well then thats great, we then use the time between the regionals and the Nationals to Hone the Robot for the the big one "Florida".
If we have no Guarantee of going to Florida then it will be impossible to get sponsors to donate large sums of funds to our team this year. We have never done more than one regional but this year we are entered in 2. we possibly would have entered more but the cost and getting time off for the Adults and Students proved impossible.
Up untill this year the rewards of FIRST far out weighed the long hours and hard work but this year im not so sure.
Lastly let me ask everyone this. Should we express our concerns and post problems that we see or should we just keep silent. Do we have the right to give opinions or are positive posts the only exceptable forms of comunications between team members.
FIRST to me is still the greatest organization that brings students and adults together.
Nick237
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