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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
Unfortunately our team missed out on a great opportunity to "learn from the pros" because we did student-centric things like insisting on having a student field coach.
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I really liked the way Tom stated this. I myself have been in both situations. The first few years I was involved in the program our team had no engineering support. It was very student-centric. Which for learning how to use tools and how to put things together was great. However, my last few years in high school I was able to work with engineers, machinist and other professionals to learn "how to do things the right way." They taught me to take pride in my work and pushed me to do harder and better things. They (along with my high school science teacher) inspired me to go into engineering. That is something that until there influence I would not have considered doing. Though this logic may not necessarily hold true for having one of them behind the glass there is a lot of merit in having our inspirational figures behind the glass working side by side with the drive teams.