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Originally Posted by Michael Hill

If this is for real, it's moments like these that makes me *facepalm* at FIRST. Rules like disallowing the painting of pneumatics really detracts from the overall goal of FIRST. This isn't the way to inspire students to become engineers/scientists/etc. Way to drop the ball again, FIRST.

well, to give a real world example, a teacher of mine told me that as a chemical engineer for 3M, they had a problem where the chemical they used to turn the sponges yellow was making them fall apart. so, they thought, why not just change the color, problem solved, right? nope, no one would buy different color sponges, therefore they had to find a new way around the problem. just saying, the "rules" in real life can be worthy of a *facepalm* too. so maybe these rules are helping us in some way by showing us that there are always going to be restrictions...some of them seemingly stupid.