you gotta remember though, sometimes the simple answer is best. this year we had several elementary school kids, two sons of one of our mentors, in the work shop on an almost regular basis. granted, they're geniuses already (at ages 9 and 11), but i want to run everything we do next year by them, and if they don't understand it, it's too complicated.
same thing applies to the Q & A forum. Andy Baker might be a mechanical engineering wonder, but because of that he may see a problem one way, and give a very complicated solution. Some high school freshman we ask might look at the same problem, and give a super easy solution, because that's how they think. no offense meant to Andy Baker, but it's just the way the human mind develops, and i think that younger people can also provide useful, if not sometimes better, solutions, and for that reason alone, the Q & A forum isn't exactly the best it can be. i don't know how to change it to be perfect, but something obviously has to be done, because some people who know answers might never be able to help, because they've been denied the chance, which goes against everything FIRST stands for.
p.s. - don't hurt me, just my $.02
