The benefits of Participating in CDI

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Gail,
Thanks, we are glad your team had a great learning experience. Frankly, thats one of the reasons for having it. It is also a good warm up for preparing for the upcoming FIRST season. But, more than anything else the event allows teams the opportunity to go through the processes as a team and hopefully have a great time doing it. The event differs from other post season events like this, in that it is an open invitation to both existing FIRST teams and New FIRST teams - and more imporatntly its open to anyone from anywhere. Ideally, the event could be targetted and marketted as a FIRST recruiting endeavor - but, then we wouldn't have the very high quality machines that we get to come. So we think the approach we have used allows the best combination of veterans and rookies. As the number of teams are limited, please be sure to sign up early, and please either mentor a new rookie team, or even a team that may only participate in the CDI. Thanks for the comments - see you next year.