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Unread 30-01-2008, 16:46
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Re: Mentors VS Students

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Originally Posted by Team2339 View Post
We finally bonded after the van motor ( my dumb idea ) failed to hold the arm up. Ideas poured out like water and the design by students was on.
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Originally Posted by ebarker View Post
If the goal is to 'force' a failure to get the team jump started started then the idea isn't dumb but really smart.

Now we are talking about original intent, but pssssttt, we will keep it a secret and not tell your students.

Really, it was genius.
Exactly my thought also after reading about the failure leading to engagement by the students!

Failure that teaches and inspires isn't failure at all! But if we could just successfully plan that failure we would really be content!
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