Phrontist: First - don't feel bad about having opinions and making them public. You can't try to please all of the people all of the time.
For everyone on this thread: just be sure that you post due to logic - not emotion. I know there are people that disagree with some of Andy Baker's points (phrontist's posts and others prove it). The reason that Andy is so well respected is that he doesn't (okay -
rarely) posts when his emotions are controlling his typing. He posts when he has thought about it very clearly and logically.
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Originally Posted by phrontist
I see absolutely no value in an entirely engineer built robot. Is that really so insulting? I mean, if the students just watch the engineer do brilliant things, they might as well read a book about great innovators.
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Okay, the reason for the post.
I'm going to disagree with the above statement, and I'm going to go DEEP into the FIRST rhetoric archives.
When Dean used to explain what FIRST was all about, he used to use the example of an NBA game. When young people went to NBA games to watch Michael Jordan, everyone left wanting to play in the NBA and be just like Michael Jordan. They were
inspired. Was it because these young people got to
play in the NBA game? Heck NO (duh!). It's because they
watched greatness occurring in front of them.
FIRST used to preach this a long time ago. The message was that people ARE inspired just by watching - the NBA proves it. That doesn't mean that is the only way to run a team - but it IS a perfectly acceptable way.