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I'm still undecided on it all, but I find it to be helping, and our creative process to not be very diminished. A team's work will expand to fill the time available. So, maybe we are not innovating in some areas like we used to, but we are innovating in new areas.

One of our original mechanism designs was ruled illegal by a Q/A post. We had an immediate alternate solution thanks to the JVN team. The students are now learning about a completely new mechanism they've never built before, and perhaps never would have explored otherwise. And since we don't have the exact parts JVN used, they're learning how to make a similar mechanism with different parts, and adapt it to our own robot.