age requirements for FRC?

[treffk]

Originally Posted by EricH

Nope, no such rule. If so, I'm in violation--I competed for 5 (8th-12th grade). Might be a team rule.

@293Spike: Nope again. There's an entire team of middle schoolers in Texas. The age ranges that you might see from FIRST are unofficial and typically used in marketing/targeting purposes.

The unofficial/marketing age ranges for the FIRST competitions:
JFLL, 6-10 years.
FLL, 10-14 years.
FTC, high school (I think--that's what I remember offhand)
FRC, high school

Note that these are target ages, except for JFLL and FLL. There is nothing preventing a JFLL-aged student from competing in FRC--though teams are allowed to set their own age limits.

Technically the age rages are:
JFLL, 6-9 years
FLL, 9-14 years
FTC, 14-Senior (with slight hints that you need to be in high school)
FRC, 14-Senior (with slight hints that you need to be in high school)

The clarification I would like to see is; are people allowed to compete as a student if they graduated a year early, or would they be considered a mentor? Would this also mean they would not be eligible for dean's list also?

[Mike o.]

Originally Posted by treffk

Technically the age rages are:
JFLL, 6-9 years
FLL, 9-14 years
FTC, 14-Senior (with slight hints that you need to be in high school)
FRC, 14-Senior (with slight hints that you need to be in high school)

The clarification I would like to see is; are people allowed to compete as a student if they graduated a year early, or would they be considered a mentor? Would this also mean they would not be eligible for dean's list also?

In the Game Rules it has always been stated that to be a "Driver" or "Human Player" the individual must be a pre-college student team member. As far as the eligibility for the Dean's List, I am not sure as I did not see any specifics in the award documentation like in the Game Rules. Hope this helps.

[MattC9]

Yes Eric there is a team of all middle schoolers down here in Texas, hogzillia(team number escapes me at te time).

But yes!!! Middle schoolers are more than welcome to do FRC.