POLL: Six Week Build Season

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Originally Posted by gblake

Using forum posts, we might be stuck with talking past each other.

I suspect that in a face to face conversation we would agree that there is more than one way to skin this cat.

Blake

I know that as well and I presented one solution right here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&postcount=149

Literally remove the boundary of it being an activity in a school which is closed several months of the year (liability insurance reasons). Remove the obligation on the other people who only want to budget for the 6 weeks+ they can manage (since I do honor any help they can offer). Open the door to year round - literal vocational style education - and then the 6 week build issue is almost no issue.

There will already be practice robots because in order for what I have presented in the linked post to work, and be relevant to FRC, you must achieve that. Course you do so at the expense of basically becoming a makerspace or vocational school.

In this case - wouldn't it just more transparent that this is one way to pull this off? Instead of pretending with 6 weeks, an average high school education and the cost of entrance you will be a contender? I lived that pain when I founded Team 8/11 with Bill McGowan. Can't we just be honest? The stress alone that this passive duplicity drives is unnecessary.