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Re: Team 95 2017 Build Thread

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Originally Posted by JamesCH95 View Post
We do teach CAD in the offseason so that our kids are familiar with how it operates and what problems it can be used to solve. However, we've found it to be remarkably more fun and productive for the students to make prototype and mock-up subsystems while I turn their discoveries into something manufacturable.

We also use CAD heavily. Cardboard Aided Design. Which is considerably more accessible and intuitive to most students than the other CAD. It plays into our sheet-metal-heavy design repertoire nicely.
I totally agree with this.

I'm still trying to balance how much is healthy for students to be hands off and how much are mentors having fun and using "teaching experience" for just doing what they want.

Having 15+ years in various CAD environments, I know the time involved when you get down to the small details of a design that's never been built. Companies spend months to years designing something this complex and we give the students 6 weeks.
Key question for myself is "Am I doing this to help them learn or because I want to win?".
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