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

[kpugh]

Originally Posted by JVN

This segues into my answer nicely:
I'd love to spend some time on a really well established team, with some strong engineers and mentors.

I want to learn.

It'd be great to hop onto a team like the Technokats or Team Hammond and just... watch. I'd be content doing nothing but making parts.
Think how much you could learn watching Andy and Mark work on their newest tranny design...

I've got a lot of mentoring role models in my life, but it'd be great to spend some "up close" time with some of them.


Once I've learned "enough" then I'd consider striking off on my own and found my own team.

$.02

JV
(who would love to take a backseat)

Exactly!
I have never had the opportunity to work with a veteran team and really learn the ins and outs of setting up a team. I was on team 229 for 2 years. It was the teams 2nd and 3rd years of existence and still figuring out what does/does not work for the team.

From there I started team 891 here in Syracuse. It has been really difficult because nobody on the team really has any experience. Plus we have no mechanical engineers, only electrical
So not only are we trying to figure out how to organize the team, recruit, fundraise, etc. we also have no idea what works/doesn't work robot wise.

Fortunately the Liverpool team has been helpful to us, plus I have a friend from Aces High that is starting a team in Rochester so I plan on pumping her for ideas! And lurking around on CD really helps too

I would jump at the chance to observe one of these well established veteran teams to learn how to organize the team, what to do to train students in the fall, and all the little things that end up biting us at the end of the six weeks. Then I would go off and use that knowledge to start a new team.

Kristin