[Anne Shade]

On the team that I was on last year (608), we, the Georgia Tech students, acted as coaches/engineers. We found that when up on stage, we were often treated as high school students. The adults often try to take control of the situation and be very forceful. They often did not listen to ideas from us or high school students. Students are able to develop adequate strategies and to know enough about their robot to compete on stage (or at least they should). I from experience that being on stage is a great high but these are high school teams and the high school students should at least have the oppportunity to run the show. I agree with there only being one adult per team so that the students are able to make the decisions. I realize that not all the adults are this way but there are enough that are to make it difficult for us younger people. I do agree that having 2 coaches per team would be much better but I think FIRST wanted to test a new method. Just my opinion.