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Originally Posted by Chris is me
Please don't judge other teams by their build styles, and please don't make assumptions about other team's building by their choice in drive coach. We have an adult drive coach and a painted, professional looking robot. I am confident that you would jump to the conclusion that we were an adult built robot and you would be dead wrong. The implication of your post is that adult involvement is inherently at the expense of student learning, growth, and development, and that couldn't be further from the truth. Be proud of what works for your team but please not at the expense or judgement of others.
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I wasn't trying to downcast robots that looked professionally built. I love seeing robots built extremely well and our team tries to make ours look the best it can. I was just referencing the teams that I've talked to that seemed the students we were talking with had no interaction with the actual build of the robot. This didn't help when I saw only mentors in the pits working on the robot. While I only saw a handful of instances at our 2 competitions this year, several people on our team observed an increase in this kind of adult involvement in the pits and the field over previous years.
Sorry to derail this thread, I just didn't want anyone to misinterpret my opinion.