Virtual Team Forum

[Ben Mitchell]

Originally posted by M. Krass
...I think that what is or isn't important about college, FIRST, and their interaction should be left to the individual to decide.

It just breaks my heart and destroys my hope to see everyone so intent on conforming to the system and playing by the rules.

I thought that this was the group that was supposed to change the way the world works, really. But every day, I'm learning and seeing that it isn't true and that's very little left that seems to separate the people here from the people everywhere else.

Why, because people want to focus on their grades rather than play with robots for 6 weeks?

If you want to do college FIRST, start a team. If people do not want to kill themselves in college doing FIRST and school at once: why should they be pressured into it?

If it was up to me, I'd work on getting the current FIRST teams up to a satisfactory level, rather than start new ones. To me, better teams are more important than more teams, and mulitiyear teams are more important than rookie teams.

If anything, pressure current teams to make the best robot the can. Forget making more teams while current teams remain unable to field a working robot at thier regional events.