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Originally Posted by Lara Surmak
Most of what people see on the playing field is money. They win, they get more sponsors to create better robots to destroy the competition.
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Money is definitely important in this competition, but how do you think these teams get their money? Hard work. And the only they accomplish anything with their resources is through more hard work.
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Originally Posted by Lara Surmak
By the way, I'm not worried about 1114 and 2056 students being inspired, but more everyone on the losing teams. If they see that anything they create is bested every time, they get discouraged and leave.
I'm just dissapointed with how many rookie teams, or even veteran teams, are getting crushed by teams like this. I wish you could see my point of view.
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It's definitely important that students are inspired on any team, but preventing one team from excelling will not accomplish this. Our students will meet with disappointment in life, and they have to be able to learn from it, and also to acknowledge the accomplishments of those who did succeed (and maybe learn a thing or two from them as well).
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Originally Posted by Lara Surmak
I asked (out of curiosity if the rumors were true) an old 2056 driver if the students had much part in robot development, and he got extremely defensive.
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As a student who had designed an awesome robot, wouldn't you?