[moderated] Corporate Sponsorship

[chocolateluvrlr]

I think that it is uneccesary, and not right, for adults to be the cause of a team's success. My team, 1389, had only 2 adults helping us out, neither of whom were engineers. They did help us very much when needed, but we pretty much took care of things on our own. There is not part of the robot that at least 1 or 2 people don't COMPLETELY understand, and we figured everything out based on resources on the FIRST website, previous knowledge, trial and error, etc. We were able to learn so much because it is what we had to do in order to build the robot. If adults want to help the team, then teach members off season, so you can test their knowledge during the season. Otherwise, how are they really making any progress?

My team is not spectacular- but placing 29th out of 58 teams as a rookie team with probably the lowest budget of all the teams there, we were quite happy with our robot and could feel pride in our achievements because we knew that without our work the robot would not exist. This is what FIRST is about.