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Originally Posted by sciguy125
As I pointed out in my previous post I don't completely agree with Oz's point of view on engineers' FIRST capabilities. My above statements are merely my interpretation of his opinion. Oz, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. I see where he is coming from and understand how he may have a valid argument. But, again, I don't fully agree.
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Actually your example is what i was trying to convey. Engineers are brilliant! They have to be! But brilliance sometimes doesn't compare to specific experience. All i want ed to say was that someone who has a good deal of experience in a field will probably be better at it than an unexperienced Engineer. I don't know what everyone else took it but that really is it.
So back to Mr. Baker's thread. I think teams will participate in robotics without technical mentors either because they don't have access to one or because they don't want one. I have not met a team that didn't want help from mentors so i assume most teams fit in the first category. Technically speaking you CAN build a robot without any mentor help (Its hard but the kits were made to be easy to some degree). I'm not saying they will have an amazing bot (though they could) but it can be done. If any team has enough interest in robotics to make a robot and compete without any technical mentors i say that they have some amazing devotion. I'm curious if anyone who actually knows some teams or on some with no technical mentors.