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Originally Posted by JVN
Yes. This is 100% correct. However whether or not "cool factor" inspires varies greatly from team-to-team and year-to-year.
Our team uses a weighted-objectives-table (WOT) to help determine what strategies and designs we want. "Cool Factor" is typically weighted significantly less than "efficiency", "elegance", and "effectiveness". This is a clear quantitative assessment of what our team values.
Excuse the expression, but that is just how we roll.  Your mileage may vary.
-John |
While I agree with what you are saying here (If you've ever looked at the last 7 years of robots my teams have built you'll definately see 'industrial machine' written all over them
), I just wanted to point out that the goals of FIRST isn't to win, it's to inspire.
And while winning does tend to inspire others, it's not the only way to inspire ... and we as mentors need to keep reminding ourselves of that (we mentors tend to be a competitive lot
)