I tell you, the kids are at this 24/7. There's just nothing like this competition. It's public relations, it's technical, it's brainstorming. It's like we're a corporation developing a product and there's all this adult stress. You've got a goal, you've got corporate investments behind you and being professional means staying until it's done.

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The top two awards don't even go to the robots.

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Some teams assemble machines built by corporations but our kids do their own. That means we go up against programmers from big companies but this way they get more out of it.

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It's called gracious professionalism. The idea is to be open and help more people learn.

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