Robot in 3 Days 2017

[XaulZan11]

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).