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Re: AMEN
Posted by Greg Mills.

Engineer on team #16, Baxter Bomb Squad, from Mountain Home and Baxter Healthcare.

Posted on 1/18/2000 6:23 AM MST


In Reply to: AMEN posted by Dodd Stacy on 1/17/2000 9:59 PM MST:



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It seems that I am in the minority again on this issue. I like the six week design & build challenge. My boss & family tolerate it. It does save us from ourselves. One problem that FIRST faces is that some teams are driven from the school and some are sponsor driven. And each sponsor has a different level of committment and/or tolerance. Some can allow alot of money to be spent, some can allow alot of time. Some teams use this as a year round program, some just jump in for the competition season. We are all looking at this from a different perspective.

While I like the deadline I don't like the 'no fabrication of spares' rule. FIRST wanted the design to stop and felt that the only way to enforce it was with this rule. I think that they only needed to spell out what was expected. I don't know of anyone involved in FIRST that would break a rule on purpose if they knew the clear meaning. I think FIRST is trying to lessen the importance of the machine in this program but might go to far if the machines don't run.


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