Team 1717 retires

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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

(the following is speculation)

It seems to me that there is a split between the team and the staff/admin of the school. I wonder if there is something going on in the background that we haven't been told about. It looks like the school wants more control/oversight/accountability in what is going on with the capstone project. This seems odd.

There doesn't seem to be a split between Amir, based on the four articles I have read on this topic, the other teachers and the Dos Pueblos administration. In my opinion the back story is Amir wants his life back. Amir then came up with a replacement project that he considered equal to or better then FRC, he convinced the principal and the letter was written.

Creating an extra curricular team may not have even occurred to Amir. Hopefully the students and mentors who are upset, according to the articles, will step up and either resurrect the 1717 team or start a rookie team. Then they will see why lead mentors get burned out. When teams stop competing the number one reason, in my experience, is the lead mentor can't go on any longer.