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Originally Posted by Paradox1350
I know this is a 'what we learned' thread, but I disagree with that. Our mentor quit during week 2 and our school administration told us that we couldn't go on because they were worried about the "Integrity of the school," and we still completed a bot.
So I guess I learned that every snag can be overcome.
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I don't mean to be offensive, but what your team went through this build period and what my team has gone through the past few years sound like completely different experiences. You're on a rookie team, right? It's understandable that your mentors might burn out as rookies. It's a really hard game, and it's always tough doing this for the first time. It's also understandable that the administration in your school might find it easier to just give up when it faces a little adversity. 258 has been around since 1999, and should have had a foundation in the faculty / administration by now. An example of our on campus presence (or lack thereof) was when I went to pick up our 3 free pneumatic cylinders from the school's office, the school secretaries had never heard of the school's robotics team. Without faculty / administration support there is no new blood infused into your team. We have more students on our team from the San Jose Unified / San Jose City College: Middle College program than we do from Lincoln High School, where our team was started and meets. For the past 3 years we've had a high point of 8 high school students on our team. No offense, but building a robot isn't a major obstacle to overcome no that there are kit provided gearboxes and prewritten code. My team's mentors (5 college students, 2 engineers, and 2 machinists) could design and build a robot for our team, but as my team has discovered the past few seasons, getting more kids on the team and getting faculty / administration support doesn't necessarily follow from building a successful robot. In my opinion, we're talking about apples and oranges here. I stand by my original statement.