IFI vs FTC? Both offering competitions for next year!

[Dan Richardson]

Sounds good, I'm excited that they will continue their program, just because they are no longer involved with FTC its good to see many growing programs. Coming from a FIRST perspective the idea is to encourage and inspire the growth of these types of competitions regardless of their relation to FIRST. Anything that promotes science and technology is okay in my book. Granted it may not be on the FIRST platform but vex has proven to be a great platform and I hope IFI succeeds in growing the program bigger each year. I'm also extremely interested to see how many teams will remain as FTC or turn over to VEX or possibly a bunch of both, because both seem to be pretty affordable.

As for the actual platforms well, I guess the verdict will still be out, VEX is tried and true, tested and successful. I'm excited to see the product that FIRST that FTC ends up using, the final product not just what they have put on their blogs.