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Originally Posted by Rick TYler
Why do you think it's sad when a team chooses a more affordable program than FRC? [...]
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Well, because I would be very sad if
our team couldn't take part in the unique experience that is FRC. So I guess I'm sort of projecting my own opinions on to the members of that team. I'm sure FTC is a great experience [there are certainly hordes of FTC teams in Oregon
] but for me, a senior, it would be a huge disappointment to not be able to do FRC in my last year. For incoming freshmen, it might be a completely satisfactory project.
This is word-of-mouth, but I've heard from mentors of the 6 local FRC teams, that FTC may not be as helpful in long-term real-world engineering experience as FRC. Oregon has a really strong focus on FLL and FTC, so it's a struggle for FRC coaches and so on to keep students from being funneled off into FTC.
That being said, I'm going to try and volunteer at the local FTC tournament this year [right during FRC build season, fun fun] and I could always get hooked on that
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Team record 2002-2011
2002: Highest Rookie Seed, AOR
2003, 2006, 2012: Xerox Creativity Award, AOR
2006: Semi-finalist, Sacramento Regional
2009: Quarter-finalist, AOR
2010: Quarter-finalist, AOR
2011: Semi-finalist, AOR, and Dean's List finalist, AOR
Personal record:
2008: Lead scout
2009: Lead scout, publicity
2010: Lead scout, publicity, fundraising, Chairman's, videography
2011: Team captain, lead programmer, fundraising, Chairman's, publicity, wrench-turning, Dean's List finalist at Autodesk Oregon Regional