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that's the way it is
Posted by Ken Leung at 1/29/2001 10:54 PM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


In Reply to: Trade Secrets...
Posted by Joe Johnson on 1/29/2001 10:18 PM EST:



In this year's competition, it is certainly all right to share general information to other teams, because the more teamd that do better in the competition, the more chances you will get a better score along with them. But when it come down to details of the robot, teams have every right to keep the technical information secret.

After all,this is still a competition, and even more of a production competition this year because the random factor of head-to-head fighting is gone. The robot with the edge will shine the most. For this reason teams are still pushing for their best ability in producing a prefect robot, and some teams will be able to do so because of lots of reasons, while other teams can't quite get that because of other reasons will learn even more from this experience in their path for perfection.

People learn more by figuring things themselves, and never learn anything if they just get an answer and reproduce it. After all, engineering are developed by people, not some lifeless textbook. You don't see a textbook sitting in front of a drill press putting cheese-hole on the robot.

Teams will get a cutting edge by working really hard, and they deserve such a position because of what they've done. Maybe it might be unfair to other teams that do not have as much knowledge as the winning team, but that's because of the way of how the competition work, not because of the winning team.

So I say, work hard, think hard, and cheer hard at the competition.


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