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Re: What Do You Wish You Would Have Known Your Rookie Year?
I wish we had…
- gotten mentors to stick with the team instead of just helping us get started
- asked mentors whether certain things were even feasible before starting to build them
- formed smaller groups to work on things (because when everyone is equal and has an opinion, nothing happens)
- read the rules thoroughly and checked them before doing things (which is why we had to spend a day replacing the duct tape with bolts)
- prototyped questionable parts before just assuming we'd be able to do them later
- thought about the center of gravity and planned accordingly (because we ended up with a robot very good at doing donuts, but not much else)
- left time to test the robot before shipping it and assuming it would work
…and a lot of other things. Really though, the rookie year is for learning. The key is to take what you learn and not to make the same mistakes the next year.
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