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Originally Posted by Chris is me
What student's robotics experience has money as no object, though? My FTC experience was very much limited by money; if my FTC budget of $800 would have just gotten me the KoP for Tetrix, and I couldn't machine anything as I was out of money, I would have a much worse experience. If money is irrelavent, you'd be able to afford FRC and the point would be moot really.
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I never said "money is no object". The intent of the thread was to find out why
else people like one program or the other and the Pro/Con list is meant to return it to that intent rather than squabbling over opinions like little kids.
Money is never irrelevant. In the professional world (and STEM funding world), reasonable cost is usually not the limiting factor when deciding whether or not to fund a program. Since reasonable is a relative term, it really depends on the situation and how well one is able to communicate the justifications and benefits of the cost.
For example, somehow most communities are still able to justify to themselves that they should pay for multi-million dollar high school football stadiums that pay for themselves over a 50 year lifespan. To us this may seem ludicrous, but in reality it just means that those communities haven't seen the immediate benefits or return on investment of FIRST or VEX.