Reverse Robotics !!!!!!!!!!

[dan 322]

Got an idea. How about a competition this summer with the roles of mentors and students reversed. The mentors will drive and be human players and the students will coach and do all repairs. This would give the student coach a chance to yell and scream directions at us, and we would have to listen with no arguments to the student. Mentors would not be allowed to do repairs, only give input. What you all think, I think that would be pretty fun. Maybe just one match each team after a real event or something.

[Kevin Sevcik]

You mean your students don't repair the robot?

I will say that putting some of our more uppity mentors behind the wheel for a few tense matches might give them an appreciation of how difficult and stressful driving really is.

[KathieK]

Role reversal, great idea!

Does this mean that the mentors get to connive ways to sneak out of their hotel rooms in the middle of the night without the students catching us? And that the students actually have to know the deadlines of the projects that are due? And that they will e-mail all the mentors and their families on a regular basis so that details are communicated, and we, as mentors can choose not to bother to read those e-mails? And the students will make all the travel arrangements and call the hotels and bus companies and restaurants, all while trying to not get caught since the calls have to be made during normal working hours? And that they'll make sure the bills are paid and the school boards are satisfied and the t-shirts are ordered and that hair dye in the team colors is brought to competitions, and make us all goodie bags for our rooms, too? And provide the mentors with tattoos and customized disposable cameras... and solicit area business for food for the tailgating party and not only work at it, but clean up after it so the mentors can go inside and be interviewed for the morning news???

This sounds like fun!

[sanddrag]

I'm a student and if I switched I wouldn't have a darned thing to do.

[Katie Reynolds]

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought "what, you get six weeks to take apart a robot or something??"

But I like your idea a lot better.

[Solace]

i dunno. If we let our mentors get anywhere near those joysticks there would be pieces of our robot all over the field.

[Pin Man]

Originally Posted by Solace

i dunno. If we let our mentors get anywhere near those joysticks there would be pieces of our robot all over the field.

oh how true it is... It might look like battle bots then...

[Frank(Aflak)]

I would like to see Mr. Shen try his hand at driving it. But most repairs are student-done on my team, so that means we would have to let our mentors do all our repairs. Which is bad, because when we need to get to our next match pronto, our mentors can't skip the whole design process. Example: We broke a weld in a corner. A friend and I cut a peice of L-bracket, clamped it in place, drilled the holes and added the bolts in about 5 minutes. Our mentors would have talked and thought too much, and we would have been late.

You could do "mentor matches" as kind of a fun bonus to a competition, though, where your mentors drove and were human players. It would be great.

[Max Lobovsky]

Originally Posted by dan 322

Got an idea. How about a competition this summer with the roles of mentors and students reversed. The mentors will drive and be human players and the students will coach and do all repairs. This would give the student coach a chance to yell and scream directions at us, and we would have to listen with no arguments to the student. Mentors would not be allowed to do repairs, only give input. What you all think, I think that would be pretty fun. Maybe just one match each team after a real event or something.

Originally Posted by dan 322

And the students will make all the travel arrangements and call the hotels and bus companies and restaurants, all while trying to not get caught since the calls have to be made during normal working hours? And that they'll make sure the bills are paid and the school boards are satisfied and the t-shirts are ordered and that hair dye in the team colors is brought to competitions, and make us all goodie bags for our rooms, too? And provide the mentors with tattoos and customized disposable cameras... and solicit area business for food for the tailgating party and not only work at it, but clean up after it so the mentors can go inside and be interviewed for the morning news???

1257 must really be all mixed up, seems to me like we've got students coaching drive teams, doing the majority of repairs, managing nearly all financial matters, soliciting sponsors, and preparing all non essential items for the competition like t shirts and hair dye and such. Well then i guess our team should be following this thread, 'cept our mentors don't have to spend all day in school...

[KathieK]

Originally Posted by maxlobovsky

'cept our mentors don't have to spend all day in school...

LOL, I work at a college, our Programming mentor is a professor, our Team Leader is a high school teacher and two other mentors also teach. So we ARE spending all day in school!

[Pin Man]

Actually I love that idea... We do it every year at one of our offseason competitions... Either meyhem on the merrimack, tyngsboro, battlecry or river rage... i forget which one but we do it every year... It is soooo funny... Its only for one match though and I think it should be for more...

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by dan 322

Got an idea. How about a competition this summer with the roles of mentors and students reversed. The mentors will drive and be human players and the students will coach and do all repairs. This would give the student coach a chance to yell and scream directions at us, and we would have to listen with no arguments to the student. Mentors would not be allowed to do repairs, only give input. What you all think, I think that would be pretty fun. Maybe just one match each team after a real event or something.

Put a joystick in my hand again, with a robot on the other end, and I will definitely... heh, nvm .

[Pin Man]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Put a joystick in my hand again, with a robot on the other end, and I will definitely... heh, nvm .

...kill someone??? hahaha It would be scarey to see any mentor with a robot...

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Pin Man

...kill someone??? hahaha It would be scarey to see any mentor with a robot...

are you sure about that? for some reason i remember a certain (now) mentor winning the 2002 championship...

[Pin Man]

Originally Posted by ToMMan b182

are you sure about that? for some reason i remember a certain (now) mentor winning the 2002 championship...

Meh that is true... I did forget that he use to be a driver... But now he is considered old... So he probably would go on a reckless abandon... hehehe