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A comment on Student Robotics.

Re:Student Robotics by lurker83256 on Sunday April 02, 2017 @08:27AM (#14016898)
One competition location, in the UK. Appears less complex engineering than US FIRST Tech Challenge, perhaps more programming.

A comparison with the FLL - FTC - FRC would be welcome. I believe at least FTC and FRC are global events.

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Re:Student Robotics by thomasleese on Sunday April 02, 2017 @08:36AM (#14016922)
We are a UK based competition, although we've had teams from France and Germany compete in the past.

The main difference with those other competitions is that the teams are able to take part for free, and we even give them a budget to purchase materials. This allows teams from schools who would not usually have the means or opportunity to take part in these sorts of competitions to take part. This year we have around 45 teams entering robots on the day.

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