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Originally Posted by MasonK
Next season, Our team is thinking about building two nearly identical robots. Our thoughts were that the Juniors and Seniors would build the "Competition Bot" and the Freshmen and Sophomores would copy/replicate what the Juniors and Seniors are Building. Do you think this is a viable way of training in the under-classmen while at the same time, creating a duplicate robot.
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We go the other way - when we make build groups, we integrate the underclassmen/rookies into the same groups with the upperclassmen/veterans. In just a few years, we have built up a self-sustaining culture of near-peer mentoring to supplement the "adult mentoring".
Also, we find that having the same group build two copies of something results in less re-work and closer clones than having two different groups each build one.