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Originally posted by 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.
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Most of the coments that are made about Team 60 (positive or negitive) for the most part don't effect me. However this one was different. You obviously know our team well, as you mentioned George, myself and Laron Engineering by name.
Laron Engineering builds and repairs machines for a living. George and I have been doing this all of our adult lives. We also feel extremely fortunate to have made the right carreer choice for ourselves. Building machines is our life. So many young people today make the wrong choices and choose career paths they hate. We try to inspire them to make the right choices. The way we acheive this is by bringing two students to Laron daily. We work one on one in desigining, machining, fabricating, wiring, programing and assembling the robot. Some student dig right in and some are afraid of the machines and prefer to watch. Others prefer to get involved with the eletrical or the programing aspects. Through this process, it allows them to see for themselves were there talents lay.
Most High School student cannot build this type of robot by themselves. However, we expect in a few years to see some of these students (From FIRST Teams) out doing us not only in FIRST but in real life as well.
Come see us at San Jose, L.A. or Nationals. We would like to inspire you as well.
Glenn