Another Culture Change

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

Walking back to the pit after Saturday's award ceremony this weekend a student from a team I respect and 'gets it', said something like Wildstang should feel ashamed and didn't deserve to win because no students touched their robot.

I'll add on to what Dave said. Statements like this shouldn't bother me after being around for 11 years, but they still do. Why? Because it's completely bogus and it diminishes the work that our dedicated students put in. Too bad that student wasn't around our shop the week before ship to see 3-4 mentors and 6-7 students spend the entire evening debugging our arm's gearbox. It was binding up and we had no idea why. Our students disassembled & reassembled the gearbox no less than 4 times while we all attempted to root cause the problem. Most of the students were still working on it at 11pm when I went home. By the time I got in the next day, it was diagnosed and fixed.