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Unread 30-01-2013, 13:13
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Re: At what point does it become unacceptable for a mentor to design/build the robot

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Originally Posted by Taylor View Post
Does anybody truly believe there are teams out there where the students "just watch the mentors"?
That just seems like a huge false dichotomy that's been used as the crux of a lot of arguments.
A few years back I visited a team asking for assistance. When the conversation turned to how last years bot was built, the students told me "the mentors built it and dropped it off to us just before our competition"
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