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On our team, we have two competing designs, and all of the engineers are on one side. The side with the students on it gets drowned out, even though we have scale drawings based on the real world, and the engineers have "concepts" and crude chalk drawings. They are also depending on a grey area of the rules for half of their strategy. The engineers have the most votes because all of the freeloaders on the team automatically go to their side, because "They're engineers, they always know what's right!" When the student team presents their design, the engineers pick it apart for small flaws in it. On the other side, they have no room to talk because they don't HAVE a design, they only have a CONCEPT. The mentors and engineers need to realize that this competition is supposed to be done by the students. The engineers are there to add gravity to the designs, not abstract.
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