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Re: Robot in 3 Days 2017
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A thought that might push the tension you are describing into the background (not make it irrelevant, but move it into background) is this: If I understood them correctly, FRC's founder(s) told us that FRC was created to attract students to STEM fields. The methods FRC's founders chose to use have many fun and valuable side-effects that shouldn't be absent-mindedly discarded or unnecessarily crippled; but those side-effects aren't the reason FRC was created, and shouldn't be elevated to parity with FRC's core purpose. If RI3D opens the eyes of initially tentative, or unaware, students to the fact that fun STEM activities and careers are well within their grasp, then I think it's on-target. If RI3D demystifies building something as interesting and tangible as an FRC robot, then I think it's on-target. This makes sense if you start from the premise that FRC was created to attract and inspire new students, and not to give already interested students a blue banner, or an associate's degree in engineering. Blake PS: The FIRST mission statement tries to pitch a very big tent. It alone isn't the basis for what I wrote above. 
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Re: Robot in 3 Days 2017
Does it even matter if Ri3D fulfill FIRST's mission statement? I don't believe they are 'official' FIRST activities and most (all?) don't directly involve any high school students. I don't think it should really matter if a group of people want to have fun, challenge themselves and show off what they accomplished in three days or if a company wants to do it to help sell their products or whatever motivates these groups.
(for what it's worth, I do think that generally these groups contribute more positive than negative to the FIRST community).
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