From: First Lego League Q & A
“Our goal is to get kids to have fun doing something technical so they may grow in their comfort with it and hunger for it. It is fun for the kids to look for ways around constraints, and it’s a must for engineers to operate this way. And while they’re avoiding the thought it takes to get the robot back to Base, the same energy and risk has gone into whatever method they used to do so. They’re still having fun. They’re still doing something technical. Who cares what they’re actually doing? It’s a bunch of plastic. If what they’re doing is allowable under the rules, then it’s perfectly okay.”
http://www.coloradofirst.org/socolorado/index.htm
