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Unread 08-01-2004, 19:31
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Re: Design Sharing

For our team at least the rookie teams if they want usually get to see the robot done a bit before ship date. and even a few others do we have a scrimage that we usually post pictures of right after ship date. Personally I have no problems sharing concepts but specific autocad docs that took our engineers 50+ hours of thier weekend to cook up for our team unless it's specific I would not share because I feel that defeats the point of brainstorming with your team, however yearly components (say like the wings from Icarus last year) and others like that need to be discussed because it aids the creativity of all teams to discuss a concept idea now how you implement that idea is up to you but I do think that helping the younger teams is something that us "mature" "professional" teams should do a lot more of. Last year we ended up mentoring over 7 FRC teams I beleive and about 4 different lego teams. We did everything we possibly could to help new teams and old alike even trying to ressurect an old idea of a state alliance to help coordinate sponsorships between teams so that the older teams didn't just snag all the good companies and leave the young ones out to dry.

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