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Originally Posted by Cyberphil
Although it is tough, I believe that this is what gives our team a little advantage over the other teams.
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Interesting. I feel exactly the opposite is true in our case.
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It makes me think that most people don't understand what "rural" means. They don't understand that the closest business that employs more than ten full-time people is forty miles away. They don't understand that a run to Home Depot or Lowes is a 45-mile round-trip. They don't get that finding students willing to dedicate their winter only to FIRST is, by and large, a pipe dream...
It is for this reason that I founded my non-profit to promote FIRST through the rural Southern Tier and Finger Lakes region. In spite of all the challenges, there is no reason why every rural school should not have a FIRST team.