Mentor/Student Involvement Philosophies

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Originally Posted by magnets

FRC: FIRST Robotics Competition.

It's a competition. There is no rule that says we cannot have a team of 300 of the brightest engineers build our robot for us. Team 254 inspires students by winning and being better than 99% of everybody else. That's their call to make, and not ours to discuss or criticize.

idk how i feel about this, its a competition and i grew up racing and one thing you learn about competition is if you can get an edge on someone by all means do what ever you cant to get that edge, would i be inspired watching mentors build a robot like 254 probably not, would i be inspired driving a robot like 254 on Einstein in front of thousands of people, and winning heck yeah.

now do i get do drive a robot like 254 in front of a thousands of people on Einstein and win........ no and most likely never will so do i feel its unfair absolutely so i think there is a curtain amount of criticism we are aloud to speak.