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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

HAHAHA

Wow, I have never met a mentor in FIRST who doesn't belong here, until now. Congratulations sir.

You are ignorant beyond belief.

Really? You're going to say he doesn't belong here because he thinks differently than you? Real classy.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Although I come from a team where students and mentors work in tandem on the robot, I can see where his argument comes from; through his eyes, the purpose of a FIRST team is solely to build engineers that are not dependent on their mentors. There are many teams like this; teams with little resources becoming frustrated at the older, established teams because of the amount of resources and students they have. A lot of students on these established teams appear to do nothing during competitions, which looks like dead weight to members of these "everybody is an engineer" teams. But FIRST is so much more than engineering; FIRST teams are fully functioning businesses. So all that "dead weight" is really what keeps that team afloat so they can continue to inspire