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Re: Are all girl FIRST team counterproductive to the philosophy of FIRST?

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber;
Yes, I inserted a value judgement, I'm an engineer. I don't see the value of increasing costs for what, in my estimation, is no performance increase in the system. In my experience teams don't exist in vacuums, given X resources if you have 2 teams sharing those resources you are not inspiring MORE people you are inspiring the same number of people (likely less due to the fact that there's a minimum level of competency required and it's easier to reach that with more resources). I just don't see why splitting already scarce resources (mentors) is a good idea for something that a watchful mentor can prevent.
It's not about the robot. Let's say the team has 30 roboteers. At the end of the season, because they were not fully engaged in the season, 10 are not really inspired. With two teams, it's possible that those 10 roboteers will become fully engaged (not as many people, less chance of being overlooked.) and now you've upped your inspire ratio.
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