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Originally Posted by JABot67
The reason this insult is completely baseless is because you do not know how another team works, or how much their kids are being inspired. I've read countless posts on CD that go something like "oh, their pits are full of mentors" or "golly, I tried talking to their students and they knew nothing about the robot" because chances are there are some students on the team that know about their robot.
On my old team (67), if I happened to be in the pits my freshman or sophomore year and someone came up to me asking how the robot worked, I would have been one of those "students who don't know anything because the mentors do everything". If that same person came back my senior year and asked me the same thing, he/she would have been quite surprised that I had programmed the whole robot while the mentors watched.
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Not going to name names, but there *are* teams out there where the students tell us that the mentors took over and built their robot. That isn't baseless. I mean, I can't be the only one whose heard the words "our mentor built that" uttered multiple times by a team.
Also, I agree that some teams might say it's okay if some of the kids don't know how the entire robot functions (heck, I would say not everyone in our team knows how everything works). But when more senior members of the team (people you've seen at competition multiple years) shrug when you ask them how their shooter works, it kind of puts a question mark on how well the team has been inspiring and educating the students.
Again, this is just personal opinion.