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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
but I only want to point out (and I dont think many will disagree with this part of it): what is best for the students as individuals is not the path you will take if your primary goal is to win a regional or the championship.
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
To give the students the best exposure to engineering you would have them do different things each year, instead of allowing them to specialize in one aspect of the robot design/build. You would let the students be responsible for as much of the design and build as they could handle, and then push them further out of their comfort zone.
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I have been bashed repeatedly on my team for saying this so I wonder if you will agree:
"Last year we tried building something that was beyond our means. We didn't poses the resources or the know-how to achieve what it was we wanted to build. As a result, the end-result was a disaster."
"Do we dare build something as complex this year? Build it because we shall learn from the experience? Or, should we learn from our mistake last year and pursue a simpler design? Maybe we won't learn as much from the simpler design, but hey! At least we've learned from our mistakes!"