2010 Award for Excellence in Design Eligibility

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Did anyone else notice the age requirement? That practically excludes all the teams from entry.

No it does not. If you read all of the rule information, they acknowledge the age requirement and problems in a FIRST team and say to get someone from the team thats over 18 (including mentors) to submit it.

The reason is simple, Autodesk require you to give them a license to use the submission. A license is a contract, minors can not enter into contracts. Thats why there is "age of majority" language in the front, for places were the age of a minor is different than the US.

Games of Skill vs Game of Chance

. The other phrase from the rules is "unregistered contests." which may also be the clause they are looking at for New York and Florida. Face it, you need to hire a lawyer to file the contest info in those states. It's a pain, more hoopage to leap through, more lawyer fees to pay, etc. etc. So they streamlined the process and gave up on the places listed.

Autodesk is a super sponsor, they give thousands of dollars to all sort of robotics programs (FIRST, VEX, etc) so I'm willing to cut them some slack.

(If you are looking for a way around this, send me a tee shirt for your team, make me a mentor and I'll submit your entry for you)