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Re: What to do when mentors are leading the team in the wrong direction?

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Originally Posted by The Doctor View Post
Our original design (we actually did it in cad this year!) called for a 6wd chassis short enough to go under the low bar with the ability to pick up balls with an attachment at the front end.
Oddly enough, this sounds a lot like our present design, CAD included (though, ours has 10 wheels ).

How many students do you have (other than the few experienced ones)? And in terms of the number of mechanisms, it seems apt to point out:

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Originally Posted by Effective FIRST Strategies - 1114
Golden Rule #2: If a team has 30 units of robot and functions have maximum of 10 units, better to have 3 functions at 10/10 instead of 5 at 6/10
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