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Re: Multiples 2007
I can certainly see where collaboration can be helpful, but at the same time I really think there is a better solution.
For example.. Team 125 designed and built their own robot this year, just like 99% of the other teams in FIRST. On top of that, we decided to mentor 3 rookie and second year teams. We brought the high schoolers from these other schools into our lab, showed them our design process, then went out to their schools and held brainstorming sessions with them. Each school had a different goal, and we designed two more robots to fit the high schooler's ideas. From there we split our resources in two, half going to our own robot and the other half going into fabricating parts for our rookies. At the end of the build we had 4 different robots, all fully functional. While they might not all be the best, prettiest robots, each robot had input from their high school of choice, and is more than just a "cookie cutter" robot. I think the students from these schools will appreciate this more than if we just handed them a robot to play with.
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