Ethics of 2 teams building 2 identical robots

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by sst.thad

As of now I completely agree with that, and think if we should we should find a place for the 2nd team. Its just too complicated to have 2 teams in the same shop, when the mentors and coaches are combined.

When you say this, you may want to consider combining teams into one.

Consider this: your mentors are probably people who love helping and teaching kids, they also probably want to reach as many kids as they can with the time they volunteer. Being shared between teams is the best way they can accomplish their goal of mentoring. Also consider that being a part of both teams means that they feel obligated to both teams and bring opportunity to both, such as traveling to championships.

Why make the mentors choose between the two teams if their goal is to help as many kids as they can? It would frankly be pretty selfish.

Try to work out with the mentors what they would like to do in this situation. I'm betting they would not want to abandon one team or the other. You may find that combining into one team would be the easiest thing on the mentors.

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