Posted by Janna at 03/14/2001 9:16 PM EST
Student on team #349, The RoBahamas, from International Academy and Ford Motor Company and Robert Bosch GmbH.
In Reply to: Teams together off the field
Posted by Carolyn Duncan on 03/14/2001 7:04 PM EST:
I don't think that's always the case. Our team is sponsored by Ford along with a bunch of other teams in the area, and we all work on our robots at the same place, so we all know each other pretty well. Just as an example, two of the Ford teams (301 and 313) took home an award at Western Michigan for sharing tools, food, and even engineers (I am serious, they work on each other's robots when they get bored!) I don't know how it was at VCU, but maybe it was just that teams had a lot of things to fix and didn't really have time to be social. Hopefully you'll find nationals to be a different experience.