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Re: Preventing "Garbage In, Garbage Out" in FRC

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Originally Posted by DampRobot View Post
The people that are doing truly innovative things don't post them on Chief Delphi immediately. If you see a lot of designs that aren't particularly valuable on CD, it's because those with the valuable ones don't go throwing on the web before they can take advantage of them.
It's not necessarily innovation, it's having students understand what they're doing. No doubt Aren Hill has a 17 degree of freedom mechanism that lets him swerve around the field while capping a tetra and hurdling a trackball (and that's awesome!), but what I want is a sophomore who can CAD a Kitbot on Steroids and understand why 1114 did what they did.

What I'm after is how teams push students at an early stage to go after that understanding so they can build that crazy stuff down the road.
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