Texas Registration 2014

[safiq10]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

I think that funding is probably the biggest issue in Texas, with so many teams being started on JCPenny, NASA, and TWC grant money and then having no plan for survival after.

The other thing to look at in Texas is alternatives. Texas has some HUGE BEST hubs. Texas Instruments is in Texas after all. And I think a lot of these teams were ones that decided to make the jump to FIRST, and realized it was SIGNIFIGANTLY more work and involvement than BEST. I think a lot of programs just say "Well BEST is free and we were doing well there so lets just keep doing that".

Coming from a school that does both BEST and FRC. FRC is a huge hassle compared to BEST. But FRC provides a better work and learning experience than best in my opinion. Also If I'm not wrong the Houston BEST hub recently went under and closed. Also I can't speak for other school but the devastators is apart of the HARMONY school system. Which had FRC teams in every school then all of a sudden tons of them quit about 3 years ago, and the only HARMONY FRC teams are us and 2948 in Dallas. Our plan is to go back up to our main office and try to convince them to open the team back up again.