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Re: Mentors
there are many ways and degrees of failure for a FIRST team.
one I have (unfortunately) seen several times is a team that either cannot get their bot to run at all, cant get it to pass inspection, or they could not ship it by the deadline - remember the placebo bot from previous years?
its devistating to the students on a team if they goto a regional and there bot doent move in any of its matches
another level of failure would be if the students have great ideas, but are unable to implement any of them, because they dont have the knowhow - Ive said before, the technology we use in FIRST is not leading edge state of the art, its scraping edge :c) - but even still, if the students can implement their ideas they will only become frustrated, not inspired.
Over the years I have seen more and more help from one team to another - I believe you could post a request on CD to have someone write all your SW for you, or to design a 6 speed auto shifting tranny for you, and someone would step up and do it for your team
and I have seen teams completely rebuild another teams robot for them on thursday at a regional
but then, you DO have mentors helping you, they just arnt officially a part of your team - If a team is willing to accept help then you dont have to yell very loud - its available from all directions.
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