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Originally Posted by pandamonium

there are many "right answers"! Also I think that students at any level are fully capable of finding "right" answers to these questions.

in addition to the resources I have already mentioned FIRST hands out design awards. These teams win these awards for a reason!

also look at teams that performed really well like the finalists at championships these teams made it that far for a reason!

Part of this exercise will, I hope, get people to look beyond award and event winners. Award winning designs are rarely notable and it's likely that there are some great subsystem designs that are strapped to mediocre robots.

I have not yet fully conceptualized what my presentation will look like. I want it to be more than a history lesson, but I also want to be armed with good examples of great system design to present to them as a great benchmark.