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Re: Internet at Competitions

I worry that we are doing ourselves as a social enterprise a disservice by creating barricade between those with money and those without.

A table with access enough to send data out to a specific storage location and down again, a storage location accessible from the Internet, could even be setup next to the field as long as it is not wireless.

We already do provide laptops with many of the updates teams require.

Creating a situation where teams must cover the costs of uploading valuable historic information and are discouraged from leveraging Internet technology seems a bad idea. To frame it a different way: NASA often buffers up data on their space vehicles to be sent when they can actually send it. Giving an opportunity to send the data should be a suitable equivalent issue.

I have to say that the Internet does give students the ability to achieve large incomes with a very low access cost. It seems a bad idea to create a situation that discourages students from learning to leverage that opportunity. The situation I proposed above would force the students to learn how to use the Internet in a way that they will have to learn important and valuable lessons. Personally I'd rather the gap be between those that know and those that do not, than those that have the toys and those that do not. Necessity is the mother of invention and this is supposed to be about opportunity. After all the gap between those that know and those that do not can be solved with education and access to...the Internet.

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