Question of the Week!!! (8/16/04)

[Jay H 237]

I will lean toward a veteran team. Being a veteran means the "framework" for a team should already be in place so you can concentrate more on designing and constructing a robot instead of a team. I will also venture to say that veterans generally have more and/or better resources available to them. Wether that is shop facilities, funds, volunteers, sponsors or just plain knowledge.

[KathieK]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

Being a veteran means the "framework" for a team should already be in place so you can concentrate more on designing and constructing a robot instead of a team. .

I would agree that a veteran team may have many things in place already, but if not constantly re-inventing itself, even the veteran team will soon fall apart.

I would argue that one advantage that the veteran team has in place is that it has enough prior knowledge that it can concentrate more on being a team rather than solely focus on constructing the robot, and more students can then become involved in the FIRST program.