Thread: What can FIRST do to increase FRC team sustainability?
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Re: What can FIRST do to increase FRC team sustainability?
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Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux View Post
You'd still have a hard deadline - your first regional event. Many teams don't have a functioning robot by that truly important deadline.
Those teams had plenty of calendar time to create a functioning robot.

What do you think was the problem?
  • Time management?
  • Not having the full range of tech skills needed?
  • Not appreciating the number of hours required?
  • No adult or student able to focus a core set of students on getting the basics accomplished?
  • Being hesitant to get help (for one or more of several possible reasons)?
  • Simply needing to start in a less complex program (FTC, VRC, FLL) in order to build up some general-purpose expertise before diving headfirst into FRC (walk before run)?
  • Something else?

Does anyone have a long list of anecdotes about this subject that is dominated by examples of teams that were making 5-6 weeks of steady progress toward success, but who didn't get finished before the current build season deadline (They had a complete plan that included some margin for surprises; every week they were making consistent, substantial, progress executing that plan; and something out-of-their-control surprised them, and used up their margin and put them behind schedule)?

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