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Originally Posted by lukevanoort
=In all the cases of this that I know of, the reason was INSURANCE POLICIES, it was not a team choice. The insurance policy in the teams' school/workplace did not allow the students to operate the machinery; thus, they had to either have their mentors do the machining or not use the resources at their disposal. I think (and I assume these teams probably think similarly) that not using your machining resources is foolhardy; those tools allow the team's students to get the benefit of learning about constructing/designing systems that require such devices (two speed transmissions, for example). Thus, by having their mentors machine their parts, the students are able to learn more about things that they otherwise would not have.
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I think that is a great point that I didn't think about, and in those cases I completely understand, my view point is on teams that have the ability. I think, also, that is is more in the spirit of FIRST rather then gracious professionalism (as I stated earlier) that it is about, the spirit of FIRST is for highschool teams to compete, not for adults and professional engineers. Through my experience I see that the members of our team (4), myself included, get a lot of enjoyment out of seeing a robot that WE built and designed working rather then something that was built for us.
Of course I am not saying that those other teams are not as good or anything like that, I just think that a team that does all the work by and for itself is going to be better off in the future.