My School = STUPID

[Dan Richardson]

Originally posted by urthe1neo


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

well those things come in the kit, and the autonomous programs have nothing to do with how expensive your robot is.

Those things even tho supervised by a mentor on my team, were completely added by students ( after playing around with the edu bot however.. we discoverd it was 2x faster to get up in auto mode with out line tracking )

I also agree that you can have an amazing robot w/ out a big budget, I felt we competed well and thats what was upsetting about going to nationals

Only thing powers complained about was not being able to pay a registration fee.

Nothing to do with actual robot performance due to lack of funds