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Ditto
Posted by Dodd Stacy, Engineer on team #95, Lebanon Robotics Team, from Lebanon High School and CRREL/CREARE.
Posted on 4/16/99 8:31 AM MST
In Reply to: Re: MAJOR TWEAKING posted by Andy Baker on 4/15/99 10:43 PM MST:
I go with 'almost anything goes' too. FIRST's stated goal is to inspire young people to pursue careers in science and technology. Think about the 'rules' in the competitive marketplace in which engineering is practised. We pursue opportunities by creatively exploring the spaces between the boundaries and prohibitions of the rules. More rules will never solve all the 'problems' in the FIRST Competition- they just make more opportunities. It never ends, until we all become lawyers. YUCK!
Personally, I most enjoy showing up at the tournaments and seeing what other teams have done with a common set of parts and a framework of rules which limit physical (and financial) scope but not creativity and imagination. Seeing how teams respond with modifications and new mechanisms to the strategic insight they gain through the Regionals - by competing or by watching - is just an extension of that same enjoyment of FIRST for me. The inspiration and recognition part is for the engineers, too!
Dodd
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