Thoughts on Ri3D and BuildBlitz

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

Wow, that is harsh. If a history teacher was excited about STEM and scrounged up enough money to field a team out of a classroom that only had the resources to put together a sweet looking AM14U, would you tell them to go home because they just copied Andy's design and built what the (very thorough) instructional book told them to?

Well obviously that's a different circumstance. If all a team is able to do is put together a kitbot then that's all they're able to do. And you're right that for some teams, that's enough inspiration. However if you look at the teams that are able to copy the complete designs of the Robots in 3 days, they obviously have the resources to build something more than a kitbot, and can build their own machine. A quote that's said often our team is "look at that robot and be able to call it yours, because you designed and built that yourself." Of course this is my opinion, I can't say that what inspires my team is the same as what inspires another.