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Re: student competency
Posted by Chris at 1/5/2001 9:02 AM EST


Coach on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW Automotive Electronics.


In Reply to: student competency
Posted by asher on 1/5/2001 12:14 AM EST:



I think on each team you get varying levels of competency among the students. Your experience with a particular team is most likely not indicative of the entire team but more of the individual that you spoke to. For instance, any student member of our build team could tell you a lot about our robot. However, members of our animation team or PR group might refer you to an adult since they are less confident about the details of the robot. The people in these groups have their own important activities to attend to while the robot is being built. Even though we make an effort to educate these groups on the workings of our machine, there is not good substitute for being involved with the build for 6 weeks.

-Chris

: The one true problem I see with FIRST is the lack of student input on some teams. It was so disheartening to talk to some students standing around their teams pits when scouting, all they did was refer you to an adult, in most cases and engineer. I know that from my team at the very least high school students on the team do 95% of the building and ALL of the animation. It isn't a competition based on how much funding you have or how may engineers you can have so you can go one that fun trip to Florida - or is it? I don't think its gone that far yet but that may be where its heading. Just a crazy thought perhaps...

: asher
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