Folks,
People involved in FIRST tend to be the best and the brightest 
, and are generally able to circumvent anything in their way. The problem starts when they tell others about it.
What happens then is bad. 
People who donāt have the intelligence to actually do this themselves, and without a good understanding of the impact of their actions, get ahold of a tool that ends up causing serious harm.
Like giving a hand grenade to a baby.
The problem is, when it gets out who started it all, it ends up being āone of those kids on the robot teamā. When administration starts hearing about bad things, and they are associated with āthose kids on the robot teamā, what do you think will end up happening?
No More Robot Team.
No, that wonāt get rid of the kids, or the problem, but it surely will get rid of the team. The administration has to do something, so FIRST is an easy target.
The bottom line: If you are part of a FIRST team, and you figure out how to get around something, keep it to yourself.
Maybe even become a hero, and tell someone you trust in āadministrationā what you did/found/learned. Then the association with āthose kids on the robot teamā will be something like āthose kids on the robot team really help us keep people from doing bad thingsā - and that is a good reputation to have. Really.
Itās still not about the robots. FIRST is about doing the right thing.
Don
PS: Bummer on the prom and suspension. I can think of a similar incident from my youth. If we had only asked permission, weād have gotten it, too. sigh. Live and Learn.