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Originally Posted by Voice of Reason
I'm pretty sure that he was just going to fill up the frame and hope for results... but who knows
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Participating on a robotics team provides amazing opportunities to think through problems and possible solutions. That is not a bad thing but a good thing.
One Saturday not long ago, I was watching a student use the whiteboard for working through some ideas that he had regarding the kicker. I don't know if he was in the problem part, the possible solution part, or the testing part. What mattered was that he was using trigonometry and calculus and that he "was very happy". He spent 45 minutes going between the kicking mechanism and the whiteboard.
To observe a student using all the tools available to him/her, including 'doing the math', can provide moments of deep inspiration to the mentors. That is no small thing.
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