[FVC]: Age Limit for VEX?

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Hey,

I’m just wondering if there is an age limit for people who are on a VEX team, specifically the drivers.

Or… maybe they have to be in high school…

Can anyone clarify this? When I read the rules, I found nothing about an age limit.

Thanks,
Fred

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From the coach’s manual:

**The Students **
Your FVC team will have up to 10 students, typically high school aged. For a true team experience, we recommend a minimum of three students per team. Students come to the team from many different avenues such as schools, after-school programs, home-school groups, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girls Inc., Boys & Girls Clubs, YWCA, YMCA, Big Brothers-Big Sisters, religious groups, and neighborhood groups.

So I don’t think it’s a rule, but it’s definetly a guideline. I know for a fact some middle schools have teams. As far as students that have graduated from high school, I have a feeling they are not allowed…but I’m not sure if that’s an official rule.

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FIRST has targeted this program at high school age students, but allows younger students to participate as well. If older than high school age, you would be considered a mentor on a team not a student participant.
Please see this threadwhich discusses it further, and refer all questions to the FVC Q&A forums for official answers.

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URLs to some specific team membership Q&A messages, found on the the FIRST FVC Q&A web site that Kathie mentioned, are listed in the message at this URL http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=537759&postcount=16

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Just as in FRC rules, some of the FVC rules mention “pre-college” students - for instance, the drivers.

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Those links require a password, what is the password?

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I didn’t see any passwrod challenge - are you logged in to Chief Delphi??

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I get blocked as well.
It’s not the CD post it’s the FVC forum for some reason.
I can get in normally to the FVC forum no problem.
Maybe it’s in a sub-forum restricted to FVC Affiliate Partners?

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Hmmm - Well, Phooey.

I’m getting challenged too.

The executive summary is that teams do not have to be affiliated in any way with schools, and that there is no lower age limit

Blake

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The Affiliate Partner section of the FVC Forums is now password-protected.

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