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Re: Percentage of Work Done by Students.
Every team takes a different line on this and ours is that the mentors want to have the students do as much of the robot as they can. Over the course of January 2006, I learnt how to use certain types of saw and how to weld, plus gained a lot of experience with files, despite the fact my role is actually as the scrutineer on the team.
The Mentors will guide us but they will want us to come up with the ideas, feed in their own on occassion for us to consider, and have us do as much of the build as we can, with them teaching us how to do things if we've never done them before. Students also do all the programming too.
I would hope other teams use a similar philosophy rather than have the mentors do all the work. I can personally say about parts of the robot; "I suggested that" or "I welded that" or "I cut that" as can a large part of the rest of our team.
As for tools, we use a mentors garage. You can see that on the FIRSTwiki as on the page for Eric there is a picture of the robot outside the garage, the door still open. We are not the most high-tech team by a long way, part of this years robot will prove that, but we Brits here at Systemetric do put in a good showing most years at NYC.
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FRC: Team 759 Systemetric; Team Scrutineer '05 & '06, Safety Captain '06.
FLL: Cambridge (UK) Regional Helper '04 & '05, Bottisham Barnacles; Mentor '05
Last edited by JVGazeley : 16-03-2006 at 09:15.
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