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[Calvin Hartley]

Originally Posted by 404'd

A little off topic but, from a remark from one of Chris Boden's (main guy behind The Geek Group) YouTube videos, it seems as if he hates FIRST with a passion. Not sure what his reasoning behind it is. I will try to find the video, but he basically called FIRST a scam. BTW, I'm not trying to diss The Geek Group, I think they do really cool stuff.

Yes, in my conversations with him he's made this quite clear. It is the money that he has an issue with. He is very clear that he wants as many people as possible to have access to things like The Geek Group at as little cost as possible. The high cost of FIRST is why he doesn't like it. Another person from The Geek Group also mentioned to me once that "he had a bad experience" with FIRST in the past. I don't know what he meant by this, but I'm expecting it was still to do with the money. But I don't know for sure.

This being said, my family and some others are starting a new FRC team. We considered/ing The Geek Group as a build space. He was willing to give us a discount membership. So my understanding is that he isn't totally against FIRST persay, just against the cost. But he is very outspoken about many things, his feelings against FIRST being one of them.