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Posted by Erin.

Student on team #1, The Juggernauts, from OTC-NE, Oxford High School and 3-D Services.

Posted on 1/19/2000 5:08 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: I like the Form Fit & Function wording posted by Raul on 1/19/2000 4:30 PM MST:



I agree with all of you, and from a student's point of view, I see this as a good idea to bring up to FIRST. As Elaine stated, not being able to make changes between regionals is a large minus and it makes our jobs at the regionals and nationals more stressful. And also it will be hard for rookie teams to forsee the kind of problems they will come across in the pit area. Since they are not able to work on their robot between competitions, they will also not have the advantage the veterans have of learning more about their robot and knowing how to prepare and what to prepare with. We the veterans already are accustomed to how a robot must be built, what kind of tool kit must be drug along to competitions, what extra parts we need, etc.. etc..
My heart goes out to the rookies who will not have the chances we had last year. Here's another thing to think about...
Most rookie teams don't have much funding and they have only a small handful of engineers. This will put extra stress on students who are doing alot of it on their own. I think that being able to make double parts, or parts of form fit & function, will give the rookie teams an idea of what they will need to take with them to competition and what robot problems they will be dealing with. There are many reasons this would be nice to have in the next team update. I agree with the proposed rule that Joe + Betts brought up. 'Props' guys to a good idea.

-erin-