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Is it worth donating to the public school to help fund this?

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What do you mean "worth it"?

100%

The average IQ of your town will be raised ~30 points

Yes, it's fun as hell for the kids and they learn shit too, a billion times better than overvalued trash like high school """"sports"""".

The autists will start grouping together and new sekrit clubs will be formed. They'll be happier by around 15 points.
Also they might learn how to talk properly in some cases.

It let's the autists work on their social skills, as the have to communicate with teammates and allied teams.

Depends on the age group and starting skillset but it is worth it to see what these kids come up with. I had a group once that didn't know how to use any hand tools so it ended up being a training session for a couple weeks before we even started on the competition bot. They didn't do too bad and I'd say they all came away with some improved skills.

everything is autism

It's great for kids that were raised in a non-technical household- the parents that coach the team are usually smart as hell (often a NASA or other engineer/comp scientist), kids learn a metric shit ton, and most end up choosing a good career path after it

100% would recommend and want to coach a team myself in the future

>it's great for kids that were raised in a nontechnical household
It's good for those that aren't, too, since they can teach the less competent ones and have a lot of fun building stuff.

explain this to a bongolian please

I did two different robotics competitions in high school: FIRST and Bot Ball.
Bot Ball is 100% autonomous, so there is much more focus on the programming side of things. It's also a much smaller competition.
It's a roomba with a small embedded device, so all of the programming is in C.

FIRST has a small autonomous section as part of the competition, so the focus on the programming is much less. The rest is remote controlled.
All of the programming for FIRST is in Java, and there's much more of an emphasis on the physical building of the robot.

The competitors at Bot Ball were a lot smarter, but there were a lot more assholes (there's a decent overlap between people that are brilliant and people that are assholes).
FIRST was a lot more "friendly", especially for first timers.

>tfw in middle school our team came second in the provincial competition
Felt good. We had the fastest run but we didn't win because you needed to do a presentation component that we completely neglected

It's called FRC or FIRST Robotics Competition, the guy that invented the Segway founded it.

It's a very interesting process- in about 2 months they will release an animated video showing what "game" this year will involve. This gives details about what the robot must do exactly- usually 3-4 different functions are possible (climbing walls, shooting balls, picking things up from the ground). Then, a few thousand teams around the world will have 5(?) months to build, test, and program a robot to perform in this game. These teams will eventually form alliances of 3 robots, and will try to compete to be the best alliance in the world.

Even if your robot sucks at climbing, you can get an alliance mate that specializes in it. It's a very cool concept and I hope it reaches more schools around the USA/world.

that's cool

we could never do that here. we don't invest in education, only "diversity".

If you know the money is going directly to a robotics program, then 100% yes.

If youre donating to the school and have no way of knowing if your money will even reach the program, then no.

Yeah, who needs exercise, right guys?

*chortles while stroking neckbeard while hotpocket heats in the microwave"

Donating money usually means its going to be spent on niglets.

I was going to join then I learned the segway guy started it. that douche was a tesla of the early 2000s claiming a scooter would change transportation. I won't associate with a charlatan like that.

Lol yea, the public schools don't put any money towards it- the team has to raise about 25K themselves if they want to compete. it's really sad.

Don't need a school to do that.

>5(?) months
I'm pretty sure the build season is around 6 weeks, at which point they're to bag their robots until a regional.
Also, alliances aren't predetermined until after qualification matches.

>niglets
>STEM
lolno, donating helps because like said, schools aren't willing to fund them much while taking the name and fame of "having a robotics club", so they have to get money from donations and sponsorships.

I assume that guy is more referring to sports like American football which receive a disproportionate amount of funding compared to basically everything else while being extremely dangerous. There would presumably still be PE programs and you do not need much to play sports like soccer in the first place.

my waifu is a primary school teacher doing this shit, but a lot of it is ABSOLUTELY PROPRIETARY garbage that costs $300-$400 per robot kit and another $75 for the toolchain to program it. they change the competition every year to keep you buying overpriced chinese plastic.

i'm currently reviving a some old laptops so that the kids can use them to program robots, so donate to me.

P.S. in reality donorschoose.org/ should have some local teachers begging for money to fund this shit, but they take a big cut of the money.

Let's just face the facts, okay?
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