[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

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I propose, Each team provide 1 mentor who will get trained prior to the event and take an online test, which certifies them to give a "first pass" inspection. When the team checks in there is also a badge in the packet for that mentor/inspector. During the day when a team is ready to start the inspection process they find one of these people form another team and they can do it. This could take care of about 90% of the inspection. Then you could have a small number of inspectors/lead inspectors do a 2nd pass or follow up to finish the process. They could also spot check any of the previous work at that time and if wrong do a full inspection.

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Expanding on Greg's idea, I'd like to see FIRST require each team to have at least one student member pass an on-line robot rules test by ship date. This student could be interviewed by the inspector at the event. This practice could help avoid extensive rework of robots at events due to lack of the teams' familiarity with the rules.