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Re: Team Update 14 (2016)
The reason I'm not a fan of in-season "copying" and resulting design convergence has practically nothing to do with a personal desire for competitive edge. Rather, it has a lot more to do with the fact that coming into a FRC event and seeing all the radically different approaches and implementations is an inspiring experience. Seeing a huge array of mechanisms and systems, not just the ones deemed to be "correct," and the possibilities that these mechanisms has is an inspiring experience. Being on a team with a design that the students can call "theirs" is an inspiring experience. Seeing something cool that nobody else thought of is an inspiring experience, even if it doesn't work quite as well as 118's robot. Diverse robots enhance the inspirational power of the program, and I don't think we acknowledge often enough just how much the "mediocre but unique" robots inspire us.
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FIRST is not about doing what you can with what you know. It is about doing what you thought impossible, with what you were inspired to become.
2007-2010: Student, FRC 1687, Highlander Robotics
2012-2014: Technical Mentor, FRC 1687, Highlander Robotics
2015-2016: Lead Mentor, FRC 5400, Team WARP
2016-???: Volunteer and freelance mentor-for-hire
Last edited by Joe G. : 02-03-2016 at 14:51.
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