Elementary to Middle to High School Pathway

[Dan 1038]

In my experience, FLL is perfectly suitable for students up to 9th grade. FRC 1038 has started a number of FLL teams in our district - the number was 16 when I coached FLL back in 2008-9. Many of the kids on 1038 are FLL vets, resulting in less of a learning curve. I coached a BEST team last year after moving from OH to TN, and I gotta admit that I am not a big fan - I put FLL technology over BEST by far! The NXT platform is more relavent to FRC and allows more advanced programming and build then BEST - but it is not free, like BEST. If BEST openned up the rules more to take advantage of the VEX platform, I would be all for it! I started an FRC team at the same school I coached BEST last year, the kids were blown away at the difference...