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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
But dont take it to extreems. Dont let it end up where one team is only doing one small part, and esp dont give a team a complete design to copy 100%.
That is where this thread started drawing flack and criticism - going too far to the extreem. There are drawbacks and tradeoffs and fairness issues when teams collaborate. When you take it to the extreem then the drawbacks outweigh the good you are attempting to accomplish.
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If you take it to "the extreme", you are no longer collaborating. Many people in this thread have come to the table essentially saying "Paint by Number teams are bad". I don't think that's what Collaboration is.
People here have said you take the I out of FIRST when you collaborate. I don't think you do. If you are collaborating you merely have a larger group of people working on 1 problem, who happen to have different team numbers.
"Build by Number" teams are not what collaboration is about. Sure if you collaborate with a rookie, the veteran team may have more input becuase they know their way around the block, but
if the veterans merely hand the rookies a robot to copy, they aren't collaborating. They're robbing deserving students of an opportunity of a lifetime.