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Re: YMTC - Manufacturing

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief

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Originally Posted by Steve W

... I believe that the team can learn more in a balanced, non time constraint environment than during a 6 week build. What's more is that we are using 52 weeks to excite and inspire. These are all bonuses. Down side is that we might get a little burnt out if we don't watch ourselves.

If this is what FIRST has really evolved into, I have to say, I feel like we have lost one of the core aspects of the program: The intensity, the sense of being on your toes for six weeks, that whole thing about 'the hardest thing you will ever love doing'

FIRST is so much more than FRC. If you think the Robotics Competition is the core aspect of FIRST, I think you're missing a lot.

Re: YMTC - Manufacturing

I think that there is lots of room to teach all of these things,
and we do, while making use of the design of a mechanism
from a prior year if it worked well and applies to the current
seasons game. We go through the design in detail, and there
is no shortage of learning opportunities for the students as a
result. Additionally, there has never been a shortage of entirely
new mechanisms to design and build in any given year, and we
stay very busy during the six week build period as a result.

Eugene

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief

You have it exactly right! We dont have time to teach HS students about boring FIRST principles: Mass, acceleration, force, energy, impulse, power, torque, metal fatigue, shear stress

when we can re use the work of someone else who already did all that hard math stuff for us 8 years ago

no time to waste, there are giant plastic trophies at stake here!