Thank you FIRST, especially Russ Beavis!
This update is a nice summary of excellent advice from several experienced lead inspectors.
When I last inspected robots at the Championship (2005) I encountered several teams that were not as prepared for inspection as they could have been. Following the guidance in Update 20 and getting properly prepared will go a long way toward making your team's Championship experience the celebration that it should be, instead of the ordeal that some unprepared teams go through on Thursday.
And oh, yeah, Thursday dinner with your team will be much better if you are out of the pits long before 8 pm.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)