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Originally Posted by Macdaddy549
Take the blinders off.
Without pointing fingers, I spoke with enough mentors and students over the years to know first hand that many of the "studs" are mentor built. The quality of the work proves that students did not do the fabricating. These teams inspire students by bringing them into their company to watch them build the robot.
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We have a CNC mill in house, with which we machined our drive tubes this year, along with our arm uprights. All of the machining and machine programing was done by a HIGH SCHOOL Senior who taught himself the machine.
That being said, the parts machined in house are of the same quality that they would have been if we would've had them machined by our sponsor.
Interestingly enough, I've seen a few Mentor Built robots that were of a lower overall quality level (Both Performance and Construction) then robots built by students.
In any case, it doesn't really matter who does the fabrication. Lets look at Vex for an example: The kids don't make the parts, yes the do modify them, but for the most part they're working with pre-fabricated components. The Students still "build" their Vex Robot...