Please don't introduce extraneous grumps at the top level. It's not that you're wrong, it's just a poor starting point for conversation—especially for a Show HN.

Yes, yes they do. And they have high-pressure air wars and they short batteries through paper clips chains to see how hot they can get them. Kids still do stupid things, honest.

-a mentor of an unspecified FRC team

Hey now, if those paper clips were actually a short circuit then they wouldn't get hot.

Stupid was the kid who thought he'd try to catch the water balloon in a bucket, missed, and it hit him square in the crotch and bounced off unbroken. Ahh, FIRST hijinks.

We were shooting bottle rockets across our robotics shop using an acetylene torch when my friend blasted the skin off his hand.

Our shop keys were revoked. High school kids do stupid things. But they learn and most live on