Engineering fundamentally comes down to problem solving, and if the students can't get excited and inspired by the problem solving process because someone has spoon fed them a solution, then nobody wins.
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime. - kevinw [more]
A comparison of first- and second-year typical costs for the three programs. Estimates for FIRST programs come from FIRST and FIRSTWA, estimates for VEX come from the VRC program Exothermic Robotics Team.
I created these match schedules so that anyone wanting to have a quick scrimmage (without using IFI or FIRST's Tournament Managers) could easily pick up a good-enough match schedule from here.
Engineering fundamentally comes down to problem solving, and if the students can't get excited and inspired by the problem solving process because someone has spoon fed them a solution, then nobody wins.
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime. - kevinw [more] 
