Collegiate FIRST competition

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by Basel A

This is not to discount the importance of the former. Many new products are the result of old products plus a newly discovered principle or piece of knowledge. While talented comp sci students are welcome anywhere, perhaps a program other than Collegiate FIRST would serve you best*.

*Okay, that sounded really harsh/mean. I didn't mean it to be. I'm not sure there's a nice way to say that you want to be there more than here, but that's essentially what you're saying anyhow.
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Took no offense, and I totally agree with you. In college other programs WILL appeal to me. I know this because I signed up for the Robotics team after watching the Nova documentary on the DARPA Grand Challenge. I was partially disappointed with the FRC experience, not saying that it was not fun or anything, but I guess I did not push my self last year. I came in expecting either fully autonomous robots or something like battle bots. Never expected a seemingly random game with lots of different elements put together. At the end, it just seemed like an advanced RC machine. I'm not complaining, but it is forcing me to get out of my comfort zone. FRC just felt like tee ball than baseball. It was so restricted.

Seriously though, I would LOVE to participate in the Grand Challenges. Just the thought of it excites me.