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Originally Posted by 907eyci
...you give any team that kind of $ backing them up and any one can do more. For example those Vex and Lego kits that they put in all the schools probably added up to a cash value of more then the budgets of most teams competing.
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Just to be clear, 1114 put together funding proposals to our school board, so they could purchase robotics kits for every school. We did this in hopes of fostering interest in STEM education in the Niagara region. This was not a case of us throwing around bags of our own money. It was us working to reform education, and convincing our school board to put an emphasis on STEM education. I'm not sure how you can see this as a bad thing.