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Re: Practice bot morality

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Originally Posted by XaulZan11 View Post
Obviously teams don't use their time as well as they chould. I think this is true for 99% of teams from rookie to elite teams.

But, more importantly, if I tell 10 rookie students to build a robot but don't give them any tools, parts outside the kit and anyone with any FIRST or engineering experience, it likely won't matter if they have 6 weeks or 12 weeks, they will struggle at building a robot that can successfully score.
An example of it was that rookie team at Midwest last year who's robot was not competition ready and a student from your team helped to make the robot functional enough to be the first alternative.
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