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Originally Posted by computer411
The FRC is a high school event, made to bring out new engineers and techs for today's world
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From the FIRST website...
The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way.
The program is not intended to be a high school event. It is intended to be a partnership between students and adults.
I had a college professor that once said there are three kinds of knowledge -
What you know
What you know you don't know
and
What you don't know you don't know
I think teams trying to work with no mentoring are in that third category and don't know what benefit they would receive from a good technical mentor.
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FIRST is a great representation of many technical companies. Just like the FIRST plan of an engineer mentoring a student, we would never hand a new engineer a clean sheet of paper and say 'go design a new compressor, I will be back in a few weeks'. We would have that new engineer work with an experienced design engineer and learn what to do and how to do it. Corporate knowledge is passed on and the knowledge base continues to grow and that is how technical advancements continue.