The negative effects of FRC

[Sperkowsky]

The lunch break thing has really started to irk me particularly when events run late and decide to eliminate a lunch break all together. This should not be the case. If an event runs late have everyone go on later but do not make students not eat.

Eliminations this year at the NYC regional was particularly bad for me. We were not the top 30 teams so they would not let us get reinspected before alliance selections. Instead after we were chosen we had to remove our bumpers (we had reversible bumpers that did not like being removed), get reweighed, and spent 15 minutes with an inspector trying to explain our pneumatics system... We then had to start prepping for elims get our robot fixed up a bit and before we knew it we had to queue. Food isnt allowed in the pits or queue so I had to go without eating.

By the end I started legitimately dizzy and I believe it affected my performance as a driver. I now have a rule to eat before alliance selections but whats going to happen when a kid passes out on the field because they had no time for lunch.