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Originally Posted by Jeff Rodriguez
Isn't FIRST about giving the students the experience of working with professional engineers to overcome a challenge and ultimately inspiring them to pursuit technical careers?
Sure, you may not have the same six week time crunch of normal FRC competition, but you still have to have a robot done for competition.
As I see it, as long as you're inspiring, you know what its about.
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That was my thoughts as well Jeff. Besides, you could always set up a theoretical six weeks. Again, its not the same, and I do agree with what you said about the time restriction aspect, Alan, but that can be substituted easily with setting up your own set of guidelines for building.
And to your first point earlier Jeff, if we do indeed have to reuse the controller from year to year, it does become a bit cheaper. A good amount of the parts in the kit can be reused year to year. They might have a little bit of wear and tear and will eventually need to be replaced, but still the cost could be kept down a bit by just reusing parts.
Again, I'm not for/against this idea. I was just bringing it up to see if anyone else has thought about it and maybe even considered it. I don't think this is a good idea for most teams, but for some teams, it could work.