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Originally Posted by Jared Russell
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Given how integral finding success is to understanding complex problem domains (and therefore inspiration), I never intentionally "let students fail" in FRC. There will inevitably be enough unintentional failure in any endeavor we take on that adding intentional failure on top of that seems unnecessary.
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I have worked with a few "over-confident" students and let them intentionally fail (in a safe manner, and in time that corrections could be made) in order to do a bit of an ego check. This was actually a good thing (as far as I can tell) for them, and we got to a working solution later on.
I also have intentionally let students do something I thought would fail... but it turns out worked pretty well.
During 2011, I ate a nice piece of crow when one of the students talked about using magnetic arms to latch onto the pole. I said, "any solution that requires magnets is likely as sound as using hope as a strategy" (or somethign to that effect). We had a magnetic runner/clinger wheel 2 weeks later, and eventually had the non-contact magnet and ramp design by end of season.... The kids really should have heckled me more about that one.