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Re: New rookie team

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Originally Posted by Ari423 View Post
One more thing and then I will stop trying to convince you that this is a bad idea. You said that last year you spent all of time between FIRST and school. If you only had one other student on your team and no mentors (which I'm sure is not the case) you would have to double the amount of work you did from last year. More likely is that your team had at least 10 students and a few mentors, meaning you would have to work more than 24 hours a day every day to come close to making up the same amount of man-hours as your team did last year. And don't forget, you will have to apply to colleges and keep up with your school work.

Also, there is the problem of mentors. Mentors on FIRST teams exist to teach students how to engineer well. Without mentors, your robot will only have your engineering knowledge, which can't be that much given your age and the fact that you are a single person compared to an entire team. (No offense, but no one knows everything.)

Now I'm done trying to convince you (unless you post something else that I find absurd and no one else attempts to correct you). If you want to form your own team, more power to you (you will need it). Good luck, and I hope to see you at Championships.
Last year, I spent all my free time at FIRST because I liked it... I did my job (programming the robot) in a few days and the rest of the time I tried to find new ideas, like new ways do control the robot or new possible functions... Which was not necessary at all...

I think I previously said I had mentors... And no, I don't know everything (the object of this thread)...

If you find my work absurd, good for you.

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