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[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Schnabel

Well, this thread was opened back up to get back onto topic, but we went astray almost as soon as that happened. Let's try to get back onto topic (whatever that was ).

Thank you. The discussion has again wandered off into the "why" of Team 842's decision to send an all-girls team to the San Diego Regional. You either agree with their decision to do so, or you don't. That topic has pretty much been discussed into submission at this point, and we are now into "me too!" mode. But the thread was re-opened to allow discussion about one very important aspect of that expereience that has been glossed over so far:

Having made the choice to send this particular sub-set of their team to an event, what did Team 842 learn as a result?

I think that if you talk to them about the experience, you will find that they learned both some expected and unexpected lessons. A few have been briefly mentioned already. They deserve further discussion, because they are important, and very revealing. And there are a few more that have yet to be mentioned, including some surprises.

-dave

p.s. and I will repeat a thought from my earlier post: if you don't find someone from Team 842, wrestle them to the floor, sit on them, and threaten to not get up until they tell you about their "Digitally Enhanced Scouting System" you are going to regret it!