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Originally Posted by BillBartell
just wondering who made them? I thought that this was supposed to be a highschool preoject...were the kids design, fabricate, and test the robot all by themselves. On my team..we have mentors to help us with complex problems but for the main part, all of the designs and deciosions are made by the team captains.
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The genius of FIRST is there isn't a rule that things must be done a certain way.
Student designed and built? Go for it. One of these years you may decide you want to explore something more and work even more closely with mentors.
Lots of engineers, teams do things differently, and it's all good.
You doing all your own welding? We didn't, til last year. We have 5 student TIG welders this year.
A mentor was doing the web til last year - it was me. *chuckle* I'm no pro. No student was inspired to do it til last year. Our student webmaster is the pro.
I'm doing the public relations. However it's rubbing off on other team members, and now some of our shyest members can walk into a congresswoman's open house, the new school superintendent's open house, and schmooze with the best of them.
There's much more to the FIRST program than just building the robot, and FIRST gives you the freedom to explore all of it at your own team's pace.