Thread: Who built your robot?
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Unread 08-21-2001, 12:11 PM
Jessica Boucher Jessica Boucher is offline
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Well.....
Two ways I feel about this:

1.) Andrew Rudolph showed me this link once of an independent listing of worldwide robotics competitions. FIRST was listed as "Texas BEST with engineers building the robots instead of the students".

2.) In 2000, when I was walking Dean around the VIP area, one of the VIPs inquired him about "students not building the robots, like the Delphi teams". Dean replied, "But, if I walked into the pits of any of those Delphi teams, and asked any of the students about the robot, they could explain every inch of it. Learning is important, not whether they built it or not".

Now, he may have changed his opinion about it, but....that is what Ive heard about that subject.
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