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Not sure why this thread is started before, during and after each and every season in FIRST. If your team built the robot with students, Great. If it was entirely by engineers and the students worked with them and learned, Great. If it was a mix, Great.
The teams that boast of no mentor involvement or engineer involvement IMHO are completely missing the point of FIRST. The way I see it, FIRST is where we are all there to work together and learn. As I say every year, if you are so super excited about running milling machines, lathes, and welders, realize that maybe you are interested in a skilled trade and not engineering or science.
If I would have had an opportunity even close to this in high school way back in the early '90's (Getting old) I would have jumped on it just to be able to work with more experienced people who might know a better way to do things and find out if that was where my future lies. Every single person here both students and engineers has something left to learn. It seems many of you don't know how lucky you are to have the 'privileges' that you do in FIRST, I never had them.
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Robonaut Next Generation Control System Development
2003 GLR Champions (302,67,226)
2003 Buckeye Semi-Finalists(902,494,226)
2002 Nationals QuarterFinalists
2001 West MI QuarterFinalists
2000 GLR Semi-Finalists
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