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Originally posted by Matt Reiland
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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I think that you understand the aspect of FIRST perfectly. I can guarantee you that every rookie has needed help with something. The point of FIRST is to have involvement from the mentors and the students. Everyone of us were rookies at one time. I personally do the programming for my team. I am the only one on our team, thats a big responsibility especially in this game. After weeks of practice with engineers, I can just sit down and write code, as if it were a second language. I rarely need the help of the mentors any more, and that is what first is about. It is about training the future of tomorrow. What I always say, I would rather learn then win. The place doesn't matter, what matters is the knowledge learned and the fun you have while doing it.
Good Luck to everyone this year at the invitationals.