[sammyjalex]

I don't understand how to some degree this becomes an argument of our engineering standards or of how competitively we design and build. Nor do I understand how this conversation to come to being about ignorance or if you build your robot this way or that. I see this as the opening of a concern that we all must address. I think placing this conversation in the context of competition actually hurts our progress. We need to admire and appreciate the accomplishments of the peers in our communities. We cannot see it as something to defeat. Isn't that how we get to this point, because somehow or another, a student begins to think that it isn't about what they learn, or the way they learn, but about who can build the best robot on a norm-based scale or criterion-based? Can we not approach this issue and say why should comparison have such a bearing. Yes, it is the hurtful behavior of a group of students, or perhaps a team, but is it only that? Can we also look at the way that we approach this dialogue of who's winning?