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Originally Posted by MrJohnston
Teams don't need to be an alliance captain to have a good weekend. However, they so need to feel useful in a match. And, yes, having two or three wins out of 12 is way better than going 0-12.
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I've always put this metric at "played in the afternoon on Saturday once in 2 or 3 years. It's by no means dominant. But it's demonstrating that they CAN do it. That's how you change their lives. And that's our entire job as mentors and volunteers, "hey kid, you can do this". If we have to simplify the problem a bit (or a lot) who cares? At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter if the student designed the gearbox that drove the robot. It matters if they feel STEM is a viable career choice for them. [1]
[1] And they don't need to decide to go into STEM, that's not a failure. You can lead a horse to water and all that jazz. Except, maybe in this case, we're just showing the horse a different stream that it didn't think was there before.