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Re: People as Support Personnel in the Elims, How many is too many?
Usually those who help design and build the robot should be the only ones in the support group HOWEVER this poses the usual problems, either everyone had a hand in it or one or 2 had a hand in it so more often then not you either find yourself with too many people or not enough. My ex-team always kept things simple... Only those who have a "DEEP" knowledge of whats going on can stay. In past years either the drive team was that group of people OR the drive team handed off the robot with that group of people.
In short and closing, I say between 3 - 5 students and no more then 3 mentors that all know whats going on should be there. Mentors for guidance, supervision and some extremely hard hands on work and students to do all the work they should be doing either which way. Students should be picked based on how much they've worked on the robot and the knowledge they possess about it so they can answer questions properly to other teams AND judges of all categories.
EDIT-Just realized this was about being on the comp. floor during elims. Usually the fields set the limits to how many extra hands you can have in which case the above still applies... only those who know the robot in and out should be there. Everything else above applies to Pit Crew obviously
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Past FIRST Robotics Events that I proudly volunteered at: FLL: NY State Competition '03
FRC: NYC Remote Kickoff '04 & NYC Regionals '04-'15 ,'10-'13 & NJ Regionals '06-'10, Finger Lakes Regional '09 & SBPLI Regional '08-'15 and the World Championship in '05 (Galileo Field) '07 (Newton Field) '09 (Practice Fields Attendant / FTA(A)), CeBIT Convention in '04 & NextFEST in '06 both held @ the Javitts Center, Monty Madness '07-'10, Panda-monium '08, B.Eruption '08 & '09, Ramp Riot '08, PARC '09 & '10, BR^2 '09 & Wol. Inv. '09 -'15
2015 FIRST Robotics Off Season Events that I hope to volunteer at: Where is Wolcott Invitational 2015 FIRST Robotics Events that I will be volunteering at: SBPLI Reg. & Championships Volunteer Resume: Alt & Lead Team Queuer, Field Repair/Reset, Field Setup/Breakdown, Spare Parts Attendant, Field Power Controller/Score Keeper, Co-Emcee & Official Scorer, Control System Advisor, FIRST Tech Advisor Assistant & recently Practice Field Attendant.
Last edited by mtaman02 : 02-05-2009 at 21:49.
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