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Originally Posted by ablatner
This topic pops often. Here is a big thread on it. It all depends on the goals of a team. Some prioritize winning, others inspiring, and others the students learning and running their own team. There isn't a right or wrong choice here, but many people have very strong opinions about it. I have my own, but I'd rather not beat a dead horse.
Libby Kamen says it well:
Keep it civil here. |
I definitely want to keep it civil. I dislike internet arguments just like anyone else. It is my opinion that teams should be partners with industries, but it's not a strong enough opinion that I would get uncivil about. And I think that if teams do this, they don't have to prioritize at all and can be everything you mentioned. They can be a winning, inspiring team that is run by students, yet assisted by professionals, so new knowledge can be gained, instead of having older students teach new students what they know and perpetuating their knowledge yet hardly progressing it, whereas new mentors can always bring new ideas from what they have been trained and educated in.