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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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None of us appreciate this sentiment. The implication of your post is that students are not competent enough to build a winning robot, and that anyone who thinks that these students ARE capable is delusional. I'm sure that's something that nobody likes to hear, especially since I think overwhelming opinion is that this is the other way around.
Whether you consider our team one of those "studs" or not, I invite you to come take a look at OUR pits. Mentors and students work side-by-side to make repairs on the robot. And I can tell you for a fact that our robot was mostly student designed: I personally tended to the CAD and some of the fabrication of our gripper. A good friend of mine was responsible for the arm. I will admit that our minibot and deployment this year were built mostly be mentors, but with student support, and our recently redesigned minibot and deployment are
100% student designed.
Please, let me ask you again, to not make such polarizing generalizations. But also remember that even mentor-built robots are not illegal: FIRST allows teams to design and build their robots in whatever way they feel best allows them to Inspire.