Pit work during ceremonies

[Bryan Herbst]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Right because we should be teaching our students that not doing your absolute best is acceptable. If I am not 100% perfect all the time and I have students that want to work on the bot to get it to that point you can bet your mediocrity loving butt I say there's a need. I'm not going to let some talking head* get in the way of inspiration just so they can feel important. I'm going to be showing my students the value of passion.

This is more or less my point- every team has something they can be doing to make their robot better, and I am all in favor of making robots better. What I take issue with is saying that only teams with a real need can stay back and leaving that "need" decision up to the team.

That being said, I also don't think that the ever present room for improvement is a valid argument for letting everyone stay in the pits during opening ceremonies. That half hour shouldn't make a huge difference in how inspired or accomplished the students are. I also hope that one day the opening ceremonies can be just as inspiring as a half hour in the pits (and some of the championship ceremonies already are).