1 coach rule

[Nate Smith]

Originally posted by Kit Gerhart
I think it is ok for students to be coaches, but I also feel that adults should be allowed to be drivers and operators if they can win a team's competition for the positions. Why does FIRST have all this age descrimination.

Don't forget that FIRST is, and always has been, for the students. When you look at the FIRST Robotics Competition as a whole, there is very little definition of what must be done by students, and what may be done by the adult mentors. If FIRST was to allow the adult mentors to be the actual robot drivers and/or human player(currently the only parts of the entire competition which say that they MUST be done by the students, unless you look at things such as the animation), it would be possible to have a team with NO students taking part, which would eliminate the whole purpose of the competition. I personally do not look at this as "discrimination," but rather a way for FIRST to ensure that teams are working toward the goals of the program as a whole.