[gottaluvtheweez]

In your response to the opinion that Team 60 is the pinnacle of gracious professionalism, I have a very different picture to paint of Team 60 and their so called gracious professionalism.

The FIRST organization is about learning by doing, its about gaining knowledge through experience. Its not sitting back and watching, its standing up and participating. When approaching Team 60's bench at the Chatsworth Regional they spoke of how great their robot was (it is great, no doubt) and how the students designed it and built it from scratch, and how their only problem was getting the coefficent of frequency to work to their advantage in respects to their wheels......

Did you catch that?

Coefficent of frequency? Now, I'm not a physics expert(I failed the physics AP test), but frequency doesn't have coefficenets...They meant friction.....I gave them a moment to see if they caught their error.......they didnt. This got me to think....then a young girl on the team looked at me smiling and said...."I buffered it.........and i made it all shiny" To my knowledge we don't gain inspiration of science and technology by wiping down pieces of metal.

Upon further investigation...the Team 60 tangle only gets worse. If you visited their website pre-chatsworth, you would have read that students were only allowed to watch Glenn and George from Laron Engineering work on the robot in 2 hour shifts on the weekdays and 3 hour shifts on the weekends......

Weren't they supposed to build their own robot? Huh?? Am I the only person to realize that team 60's robot is nothing but a corporate creation rather than a student one?


I have nothing against Team 60...the team members are all quite nice....but please........if this is to continue other teams will join the mess and this will be the battle of the conglomerates rather than the battle of minds, hearts, technology.

Some dude who looks at things.