[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by boomergeek

If you think that encouragement of:

* safety glasses
* safety cages
* filing sharp cut metal as soon as its cut before of letting team members lean on it
* trying to reducing the number of people within inches of 60 FPS metal objects

are suggestions of smothering-

then you and I have totally different ideas of what smothering is.

I am truly glad no students were hurt- I would think the goal would be for all team members to be unbloodied and gouge-free, not just the students.

Maybe liability lawyers in Colorado are totally different than lawyers on the East Coast. I would appreciate if let us know the outcome of your next conversation with your legal department and whether you would volunteer to show them the videos and pictures that were shown here and these posting and your responses.

After you show them the video and pictures, would you be willing to ask the legal department if they would consider ANY or ALL of the suggestions offered in this thread as amounting to be "so smothering all the time"?

CSM Legal thought it was cool, they congratulate the kids and we had fun. Unfortunately I cannot share you our private discussions, FIRST HQ has already made a first bad impression and has shown that they needed to learn not to overstep boundaries, thus why the new consent form and other new private changes that took place at FIRST HQ.
You're suggestions have been noted and I've shared it with the other mentors and students,although what they think and feel about it is up to them.