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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence
When I see teams talk about how proud they are of their student-run team, I cannot help but feel sorry for them and the lies they keep telling themselves.
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What exactly you mean by this?
What "lies" do teams that are proud of being student-run tell themselves?
Are they lying to themselves when they say that students gain an invaluable learning experience leading the design and fabrication of a FRC robot. (Which is an experience almost impossible to get in a high school setting?)
Are they lying to themselves when Students recognize their team's failures, analyze and learn from said failures, and take the initiative to restructure the team, spend extra effort in the offseason, and start improving?
Are they deluding themselves when they are proud of the robot they build not because of how well it perform, but because they have sense of ownership and achievement of the machine that they have poured their (literal) blood sweat and tears into building.
Please tell me: what "lies" are these teams telling themselves and why exactly do you feel sorry for them.