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Re: What was there before AndyMark?

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Originally Posted by KGenson View Post
The benefit was the experience of building the chassis and drive train, of having the students innovate and work with what they were given. Of having built something completely from scratch.
I don't think the vast majority of teams are capable of making gearboxes from scratch, so I find it hard to lament the "loss" of this particular challenge.

Students still have to innovate and work with what they're given. What they're given now is strictly better, as far as I can tell, than what they were given in the past.
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