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I think sponsors should go first when announced and on the team list because of what they put into it. The teams get recognized by what they they do at competition (Spirit, Robot, etc) and the sponsors sometimes seem to just be along for the ride.
In my experiences, sponsors have put almost as much effort into helping a team as the students.
On top of that, nobody knows Blargdenville High in Egypt, but they might recognize their sponsor Stuff Electornix, Inc. If that made sense to you, congrats, it makes almost no sense to me.
On the topic of engineers working more than students.. totally right. If an engineer is working on a bot, fine, but if a student isn't being a big part of what the engineer is doing, they aren't learning anything.
But on the other hand, the students need to be willing to help out too.
When a team destroyed our tether arm last year at GLR, we had 2 engineers, 2 parents, and probably 6 students all working on sections of the arm to rebuild it before our next match. Thats how it should be, not 3 engineers working with a student.
The number of students working on a particular section of the robot should always outweigh the number of engineers, and so should the amount of work each of them do.
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