My School = STUPID

[Mike Ciance]

i agree with the people who are saying that you don't need a ton of money to be a successful team. it's better to keep your robot simple instead of putting all these hi-tech things in it that don't even help much. that "driving tomorrow's technology" award gives many teams the false idea that hi-tech is the way to go.

i was in the pits for most of the nationals and people kept coming up to me saying stuff like "our robot has 3 optical sensors and a gyroscope and 50 self-correcting autonomous programs". and i would say "our robot hits the wall really fast and it's strong" and some of them would kinda look at me as if to say "no expensive gismos?"

but we still got to the finals without all that stuff, and a relatively inexpensive robot