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Re: AMEN
Posted by Samuel Lindhorst.

Engineer on team #240, Mach Vee, from Jefferson High School and Visteon.

Posted on 1/18/2000 11:58 AM MST


In Reply to: Re: AMEN posted by Greg Mills on 1/18/2000 6:23 AM 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.


I agree with you, Greg. 6 weeks is about all my employer will stand, and I think the length is about perfect. It's too short for large teams with 20 engineers that are slow off the mark getting organized, and long enough for moderste sized teams to get something done with 5 overworked and soon to be burnt out engineers.

Longer than this, very large teams could bring so much talent to bear, smaller teams would have no chance. I've seen robots with hundred's of hours of machining time in them, and I wouldn't like to give them a few more weeks to do even more.

Sam



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