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Re: Teacher Designs

This happens more often than you may think.

Without knowing how your team works, these are my thoughts:

1) Were the students involved in a high enough capacity to where they could've designed the robot? In my six seasons I've seen at least 20 kids come for kick-off, miss brainstorming and then show up in week 2 upset that they weren't allowed to be involved in the Design of the Robot. Can't design if you're not there.

2) There are often cases where no one steps up and wants to design the robot or no one is capable of doing so. I don't intend to sound mean but, I've seen a lot of kids that come up with ideas that just aren't feasible to build or won't be successful in competition. If this is the case, then someone needs to make the hard decision to build something feasible and functional.

3) Personally, I do, and have done 85-95% of the design work for 816 and have done so since 2008. What I do is take the concept decided on in Brainstorming, make sure that it can work and then turn it into a CAD model. The amount of Student involvement in this part is often minimal, because the kids are often not available, nor has anyone shown a dedicated interest in learning CAD or doing design work... Was this the case on your team?
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