Looking Back: 3 Day Robots

[MrBasse]

Originally Posted by Dave Campbell

Another point to keep in mind - teams do not have to look at the Ri3D videos and information. It can and should be a team decision to figure out what references and sources they use for ideation and robot design. Ri3D robots are just another source teams can use or ignore.

But they do, so many teams do, and we saw so many duplicates this year. I like the additions that Ri3d/Build Blitz can add, but why not do them in week 2 or 3? Still give plenty of time to borrow ideas, but also gives teams a chance to solve their own problem first. Lots of my students saw the solutions developed by the 3 day teams and those were the only possible solutions they saw all season. It effectively removed a few of our students from the unique and creative design of our robot. High School teenage tunnel vision is a powerful thing...