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We have three teams building this year in a shared area and as usual there is an extreme mix of what ideas should be used on the final robot. My personal experience is that each person wants thier ideas to be used but,they all can not be used, sometimes leading to hurt feelings. We seem to have a big problem on our team with ideas that either can't be produced or the design has obvious problems with such things as robustness. Even with these problems some people still want to try it and it takes up time and resources to do so. One of the teams is even building competing designs within the team and that leads to problems with resources when the robot needs to be finished. Teams need to use the mentors and engineers to help shed light on what will and will not work (mechanically and electrically), if the design is robust, and above all can it even be built, early on. That way you don't spend all of your precious time and resources working on an idea with no future.
Thats at least my take on it
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