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Originally Posted by philso
When we were in St. Louis this last April, I was speaking with some people from some of the Toronto area teams and they described a system much like what is being proposed by Bobby. Can anyone from a team that has done this give their perspective?
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While I am not currently a part of any Toronto-area team, the system described is likely a combination of the efforts of individual teams on top of the efforts done by FIRST Robotics Canada. In short, there is a considerable amount of teams in Ontario that share resources (e.g. the famed practice field that the Niagara teams share, machine shops such as 865's etc.). Also, teams like 1241, 610, 771 and many others do help other teams through distance-mentoring and seminars that occur in the preseason or just after kick-off.
On top of that, I believe FIRST Robotics Canada also tries to assign a mentor team to every rookie team when they start off.
In other words, we're kind of a big, maple syrup-guzzling family that also makes great robots (and people
!) .