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Re: No more adult coaches
Posted by ChrisH at 04/12/2001 12:07 PM EST


Engineer on team #330, Beach 'Bots, from Hope Chapel Academy and NASA JPL, J & F Machine, Raytheon, et al.


In Reply to: No more adult coaches
Posted by julia walsh on 04/12/2001 8:02 AM EST:



This year we started in LA with two adult coaches who actively worked to shape strategy. But we found that other teams seemed to resent this. So we went to an all student team. OK one was a college student who drove last year, but he looked like a student and many of the other teams knew him from previous years.

After one match in SJ where our students were yelled at in a most unprofessional way, we put back one adult. His job was just to make sure things didn't get out of hand. He made no input to strategy.

I don't think we would object to a no-adults rule. Our drivers have years of experience and we drive the robot throughout the build stage. As an engineer I'm not allowed to touch the controls EVER. If I need something driven during the build I have to get one of the drivers to do it for me. It's just more practice for them and not all that different from working in a union shop to me.

Our drive team is experienced enough with the robot that I don't even worry about things not being properly setup or turned on. If it's that critical we do it in the pit anyway.

My $0.02
Chris Husmann,PE
Team 330 the Beach'Bots


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