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Originally Posted by cgmv123
You won't ever need to do math like the above examples to succeed in FRC.
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That depends how you are defining success. Yes, in the grand scheme of things, students can be inspired and they can develop life skills without ever being asked to do a motor calculation.
However, challenging our students to learn about motor curves and apply that knowledge to designing a component on the robot can inspire them, give them a real world experience and result in a more competitive design. They can learn more and be inspired more. Of course there are plenty of competitive robots each year that are built without applying motor curves or math, but the ones that do use these calculations do some pretty inspiring things.
If success is defined more narrowly in terms of specific design objectives for a robot and its subsystems, it is very possible to fail if motor curves or calculations are not used.
We are also aiming to change culture to celebrate STEM. We should encourage doing the math so everyone can strive for greater achievements, rather than look for reason to justify not doing it because we can be successful that way.