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Originally Posted by dmoody92
...I said that I would rather lose miserbly with the bot I made, then win it all with a bot I had no help on...
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There are quite a few other more significant factors that others have already spoken to, but this was something I feel very strongly should be pointed out. One of the first things I learned when I left college, and moved into the profesional engineering feild:
There is no pride in authorship.
When personal pride becomes part of the decision making process, problems arise. Most of the posts like this that are posted on this forum seem to be caused by this situation.
Its week 5, so it sounds like the ship has already sailed for your mentors design; but if you are going to do a side by side comparison, I would suggest that you work to the best of your abilities to optimize both designs, so that the best one (as decided by some quantitative measure) is shipped, not the one that got all the time and effort just because you liked it more than the other. Have your mentor's group help to perfect the wheel as rapidly as possible, and your large group the auger. I can almost guarantee that the mentor will go with the winning design, regardless of which it is. I can give you the same odds that there will be hurt feelings if his group feels that you're working to sabotage their design.
Whatever you choose to do,
do not allow this to become personal. This cannot become a fight over 'your' design or 'his' design, because no matter who thought of what parts, the robot that ships in 12 days belongs to your team, for better or for worse.
*edit* heed Rick Tyler's words, as he made a lot of good points