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Re: The 6 Week Build Season and 'Mentor Burnout'
my personal view is this would help newer teams and not have a signficant impact on many of the teams. It would save $$ and a lot of work and reduce stress.
Why - we build a prototype and then a competition robot. we work hard to keep the two very similar. once we bag the comp robot, then we make changes to the prototype. then we have to make a second spare part for the comp robot. then we have to be sure the new parts will fit and it will all work the same. then we spend a lot of time on thursday morning putting on the new parts, or re-fabricating pieces.
If we had access to the comp robot, we could just work on it. and on thursday, instead of finishing our robot, most of our team could focus on helping the teams that are still struggling.
Even a 1 day "out of the bag" optin each week could make more teams available to help others on the first day of the regionals.
Teams still have a choice. Even with the current rules, some teams meet 7 days a week for 6 weeks. Some meet 3 times a week. Three are some really good teams that do not meet everyday (or even 6 days a week) now.
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Chris Fultz
Cyber Blue - Team 234
2016 IRI Planning Committee
2016 IndyRAGE Planning Committee
2010 - Woodie Flowers Award - Championship
Last edited by Chris Fultz : 03-05-2013 at 16:11.
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