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Originally Posted by l0jec
Not to derail this thread, but I feel the need for some disclosure which I am not seeing.
While I personally think Vex is a great product and that IFI is a great company, if you happen to work for them... please disclose that in posts advocating someone to spend money on that program over others here on Chief Delphi. The way some of the responses are worded from those with financial ties to Vex, I don't see how the OP (or anyone new to Chief Delphi) would be able to identify them from the non-biased posts.
This is simple courtesy and keeps the information here trustworthy.
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If this was directed at me, I can explain my position. I work for RECR, and on the VRC, but even if I were an employee of IFI, that wouldn't matter. I work with the VEX competition world and support the VEX product line because I choose to, and not because they pay me. If he had asked me this question last year I would have answered the same way. Ironically, Sanddrag and I were both very active in 2005-2006 on this forum, and I would be surprised if I have to tell him my credentials to be believed. I'm not a legend on this forum, but I believe I have a long, credible history here, with two years of FRC, four years in FTC, and three years in VRC. I've been working with VEX ever since FIRST adopted it, and now run a 70+ student VRC program in our own club. The product is a great general-purpose tool for teaching engineering/robotics basics in the classroom and after school, and, given what Sanddrag told us initially, I'm comfortable with the advice I gave.
My first response to Sanddrag was to ask him what his educational goals were. In the absence of goals, it is hard to make plans, but with the limited information Sanddrag gave us, I believe my answer was credible. I have immense respect for those who responded in this thread (especially for well-know contributors who use their real names), and think there are a lot of good ideas here.