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Re: What can FIRST do to increase FRC team sustainability?
T-pbb,
Good points.
About the idea of letting teams build, and later compete with, a Fall SimpleBot ... I agree that without more training than would be necessary to simply follow IKEA-style instructions to assemble and program a SimpleBot plus Driver's Station, teams won't become ready to do more sophisticated design, construction or programming.
However, instead of using the SimpleBot to prepare for building a space shuttle  , I envisioned that struggling teams would use it to avoid dropping out of FRC entirely. It would be the simple, inexpensive, reusable, safety net they would use while regrouping, or to avoid the dreaded robot-parts-still-in-the-KOP-crates syndrome at their first rookie tournament.
In a perfect world, the SimpleBot curriculum would sneak in enough project management training to enable a team to correctly plan introducing more advanced subjects in future seasons. I'm sure most of us agree that accurate & consistent time/project management is the bedrock skill that enables a group to get the most out of whatever resources they have. The point would be (re)teaching them how to (re)teach themselves how to fish. I think that is a more fundamental goal than what you guys were trying to do with your JV/varsity split
Blake
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Last edited by gblake : 06-04-2016 at 02:16 PM.
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