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Re: pic: 1323's PowderCoated Render

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Originally Posted by Stu Bloom View Post
... and I know you guys had an awesome robot this year, Midwest Champions AND Regional Chairman's, AND WI Champions! Congratulations on your success! You must be doing something right ...

But I have to wonder ... are we forgetting about the science and technical INSPIRATION, and just rushing to build a robot as fast as possible? I just dont understand how, even working long hours every day the first week, anyone could get through a reasonable engineering/design process and have something built that quickly. Maybe I need to rotate through some other teams over the next couple of years to undetstand how that happens ...
I can't speak for them, but some teams spend the other 46 weeks of the year teaching and inspiring students, then spend the six weeks applying it as fast as possible to make a competitive robot. Six weeks is too short to do serious teaching while designing/fabricating/assembling/programming a competition robot.
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