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Re: Vote to change the format of FIRST.

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Originally Posted by Cory View Post
No, we need sustainable teams. If you give a team a check for $6,000 and say "Here, build a robot", that's a team that will probably be overwhelmed and drop out a year or two later due to inadequate funding and mentor/teacher support. That is entirely counterproductive to FIRST's goal.
Some of those teams will become sustainable, but throwing $6k to an already established team will not create a new sustainable team. Also, those students will have learned something that year and it wont' be about failure.
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