Quote:
Originally Posted by cadandcookies
I still have yet to see any hard evidence that "thinking" or "innovation" were any lower this year than in previous years. I'd really appreciate the next person to bring up this assertion providing non-anecdotal evidence.
|
I completely agree, most great ideas come from combining other ideas. That requires first that you gain a ton of experience with other ideas. The 72 hour builds do a great job of exposing students to a large set of ideas that they can build on.
Even the teams that build robots that are very similar (I don't know of any team that exactly copied a robot) to the 72 hour robots they still had a to learn a lot of the details of the design and I'm sure they will be better at designing robots next year. The problems they faced this build season were just as real as other teams and they had to learn to solve them. No one expects the next great innovation in the auto industry to be designed by someone that has never seen a car before why do we expect the same from our students. Take what other people have done, learn from it, and make it better.