I think that there is lots of room to teach all of these things,
and we do, while making use of the design of a mechanism
from a prior year if it worked well and applies to the current
seasons game. We go through the design in detail, and there
is no shortage of learning opportunities for the students as a
result. Additionally, there has never been a shortage of entirely
new mechanisms to design and build in any given year, and we
stay very busy during the six week build period as a result.
Eugene
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
You have it exactly right! We dont have time to teach HS students about boring FIRST principles: Mass, acceleration, force, energy, impulse, power, torque, metal fatigue, shear stress
when we can re use the work of someone else who already did all that hard math stuff for us 8 years ago
no time to waste, there are giant plastic trophies at stake here!
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