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Re: So, you're not an engineer! How do you help your team??
I've been doing animation during the build season and scouting during the competition season for my four years with Cyber Blue. Next year, I'll be going into Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue. From there, who knows, it all depends on what I end up actually specifying my major as.. which I have no idea as to what that will be yet. Most likely something that requires a lot of technical skills, but at the same time some artistic ability. A bit of both sides of the brain.
With scouting - a lot of teams have adapted scouting to include computers with huge databases and all that jazz. I, personally, have found that unnecessary. We do it pen and paper style, everything is kept in a notebook, and scouting reports on the teams we're going up against go to the pits to assist in creating a strategy. It's simple, and it has been proven to work well.
While I'm most definately going to continue with FIRST into college... I don't know what I want to do on the team I mentor. Guess we'll see...
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Ryan Dognaux :: Last Name Pronounced 'Doane Yo'
Team 234 Alum: 2002 - 2005 :: Purdue FIRST Member: 2006 - 2009
Team 1646 Mentor: 2007 - 2009 :: Team 357 Mentor: 2009 - 2012
Team 4329 Mentor: Current
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