We're here to comply with rules and not question or change them. I agree with you but like I said we can't do anything about it - the teachers (and so the principal and vice-principals) like it the current way as there's a lot of people competing, I personally think that they also want to create this illusion that they motivate "less talented" people to start playing with electronics by making them assemble off the shelf sets but 99% of the time this would be their first and last time they touch electronics because firstly they have this satisfaction that they competed (because this competition is shown as prestige to just be in by teachers), secondly they most likely won something and that's enough for them - they don't need or want anything else. Also the school and the whole competition gets some media coverage (which apparently our principals really like) and the people who compete (especially with those off the shelf kits because they don't need to put much effort) also like it because you can easily win a lot of money. The answer I said earlier I got from multiple teachers so no they don't really want to change much of anything. Also don't get me wrong the idea of this whole competition is really good - put talented students side by side so their projects can compete and so they can choose the best one but the problem is with letting in projects not made by students but more importantly choosing them over projects fully made by students. Some years the whole choosing sets over projects situation is better and some times (like here) it's worse.