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Originally Posted by OZ_341
Stereotype #3: “Miss Daisy is designed by Corporate Engineers”
We do not have any outside engineers that come to us directly from our sponsors. Every Engineer, CAD mentor, or Media coach on Miss Daisy is a former FIRST/341 student, a friend of a student, a team parent, or a teacher. We do not have a single engineer or professional on our team that is not in that category. Our fantastic engineering design mentorship comes from our former team members and their friends. We are an absolutely home-grown organization.
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I have always thought that "XYZ is designed by Corporate Engineers" is a patently ridiculous statement. Most of us don't design frisbee launching, basketball shooting, innertube plucking, soccerball kicking robots for our day jobs. Even as you move up the engineering world and become really good at what you do, just because you can design a really awesome [thing] does not necessarily mean you can build a top quality FRC robot.
To be sure, engineers are great people to have around. But just because they have the title does not automatically make them good at robots off the bat. (But you may have a hard time getting this past our egos.
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