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Re: Does collaboration do good and evil?
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Originally Posted by Steve W
I am totally against collaboration. The reason I am is the fact that I believe that the more people that are trying something new, the more they will learn and benefit. I have found in the business world that when a group specializes that they lose other skills or do not develop new ones. Eventually they will become redundant as technology and fads change.

I have to say that I was against 1114 the first year that I saw the collaboration. I only saw mentors working on the robot. My feeling for the team changed after I saw students becoming more and more involved. I have seen inspiration stemming from this team and flooding the whole of FIRST. I believe that they do inspire and that is what FIRST is all about.

I am still a strong believer in individual teams with individual bots. I am not saying that you cannot mentor teams but that it should not be an ongoing theme.

Basically collaboration does do both good and evil.
To ensure that I entirely understand what you're saying Steve, you're insinuating that collaboration would be good, so long as the teams that are being "mentored" by the parent team changed every year?
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