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Re: Robots by committee
Last year we suffered greatly from our inability to choose a design early. This was mainly due to our overuse of the committee system which led to designs that would never work being brought up multiple times. We were to democratic which created a 2 week design phase that had accomplished nothing. By the last week our indecision hurt us big time, we tried to cram an overcomplicated drive train onto our robot which had not been tested at all which failed miserably. Two drive trains later we finally built a rudimentary 4 wheel drive system that was very underpowered. It was so weak that the rear wheels could not even pull the robot up by itself. So we learned a lot from last year.
This year we decided on our design in 3 days and our prototyping has been very successful because we have enough time. By weeding our crazy ideas from the start we are getting things done a lot faster 
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I'm the Not a Camera Kid at the New Jersey Regional But Not This Year, I am at Syracuse University Class of 2009 
Uncrowned Champions of the 2005 Philadelphia Regional
SPIKE X NJ Xerox Creativity Award. Chesapeake Regional CHAMPIONS, and Motorola Quality Award
2006 Semi-Finalist at NJ Regional & Semi-Finalist at Chesapeake Regional, winners of the 2006 Xerox Creativity Award, and Judges Award
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