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Originally Posted by Cory
Please, everyone, before you post in this thread, read what you're about to say. Heck, even have someone else read it.
This is one of those sensitive topics where people have a knee jerk reaction and immediately post their thoughts. This is also one of those topics that we've never been able to have an intelligent, mature discussion on. It quickly degenerates into name calling, and finger pointing.
Also, unless you have some insight into the day to day runnings of another team, please do not insinuate that the students on such teams do not do any of the work. Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but fact of the matter is, you really don't know.
As a warning, please keep discussion civil and on topic, or this thread will have to be closed.
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You are right, inspiration is king. I also know that there would not have been the inspiration if i would not have been a serious part in building the robot. I learned about all sorts of stuff, i learned about materials, hot to lathe, mill and even how to weld. I was also very saddened and disappointed when we got our tail tanned by a few teams who's high school members never even touched the bot in the pits. the veteran *insert big 3 sponsor here* engineers did all the stuff.
It isn't about money, we had a huge machine shop at our disposal (community college has a machining program) complete with good CNCs and everything. we even had a high schooler who was in the CNC programming associates degree. We also had money, the college said they would pay for everything. What we didn't have was lots of engineers who have what only time can give... experience.
I am glad we didn't, i am very proud of our bot. I wish that every FIRST team could feel such pride in THEIR work.
No, I'm not going to resort to name calling like some of these threads do. I am not angry, i just feel cheated. I also feel for other high schoolers who may have been cheated. *EDITED OUT for lack of clarity* In many ways FIRST is becoming commercialized. but sponsors are a necessary evil.
It is reasons like that that i am against having a big 3 company sponsor us.