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Originally Posted by lukevanoort
I would like to be an inspector, they get to see all the robots and examine the mechanisms closely. What's better than that? (other than building the robots)
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Very soon you will be an alumni of your FRC team, and probably a mentor for that team or another one nearer to your college.
If you plan to be at an FRC regional and don't have a full-time role to fill with your team, please contact the volunteer coordinator (in advance if possible) and let him/her know that you're willing to inspect robots.
What we look for in a robot inspector is good knowledge of the robot rules and familiarity with KOP and commonly used COTS components, experience with engineering design (especially design of FIRST robots!), an appreciation of the goals of FIRST, and ability to communicate with and listen to team members.
Ability to communicate and listen is important because inspectors are at events to help teams ensure that their robot design and construction complies with all the rules. The rules are there to make the competition safe and fair. Inspectors don't own the rules -- the rules, and the responsibility to comply with them, belong to all participants in FIRST.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)