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Re: Opinion Poll: Proliferation of Prefbricated Parts
The teams don't exist to make the competitions the best they can be. The competitions exist to make the teams the best they can be.
If you are using prefabricated parts to produce better students in a better team, then I think there is a very good chance we see eye to eye. If your group is using prefab parts for a different reason, I might be harder to convince. YMMV.
Much of what I have read here seems to revolve around where people fall in this spectrum.
Blake
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Words/phrases  I avoid: basis, mitigate, leveraging, transitioning, impact (instead of affect/effect), facilitate, programmatic, problematic, issue (instead of problem), latency (instead of delay), dependency (instead of prerequisite), connectivity, usage & utilize (instead of use), downed, functionality, functional, power on, descore, alumni (instead of alumnus/alumna), the enterprise, methodology, nomenclature, form factor (instead of size or shape), competency, modality, provided(with), provision(ing), irregardless/irrespective, signage, colorized, pulsating, ideate
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