Grades and Student Travel, Etc

[luciaes]

I think that anyone should be able to be on a FIRST team, regardless of grades. Why cant someone with low grades contribute to a team? with a basketball or football team i can see grades being a factor, but with robotics its completely different. Robotics is a place ware you can learn so much from being on a team, i highly doubt that you can learn as much on a basketball team than you can on a FIRST team.

Saying someone cant be on the team because they have low grades is saying "well you don't do good in school, so you don't deserve a chance to learn anything here and be inspired to do good just because you currently don't do so good"

Personally i think I'm doing better in school now that I'm in robotics and have a much higher desire to learn, and now i might be taking extra classes over the summer just to learn more and get farther in school, and if i wasn't allowed on the team because of my grades i would have never got the chance to see that.