Mentor/Student Involvement Philosophies

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

I am fairly sure that I would not have gained much of anything from watching a team of professional engineers construct a robot.

Originally Posted by Oblarg

If someone claims that a specific team is "a team of engineers building a robot and students driving it," then that is an obnoxious and likely incorrect claim, yes.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm having a hard time reconciling these two statements, unless your intent was to say that you were making an obnoxious and likely incorrect claim. // {I'm slow at posting, you and Cory addressed before I could hit send.}

Regardless, you make some very good points about resources. The level of a team's resources (finances, experience, shop access) goes a long way in defining a team's limits. Team's with more resources definitely have an easier time. However, if a team works intelligently and efficiently within small set of resources, I content that they are much more likely to be successful than a team who lacks a solid strategic plan and is inefficient within a large set of resources.