The Triplet Challenge

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by ahecht
If you are so keen on assisting "helpless" rookies by doing their work for them, why not take a page from Team 190's book. Invite students from local school who do not have a team to join yours for a year. Work with them on [i

your [/i]team. They will be getting he same experience as if they cloned your team, without clogging FIRST with carbon copies and crowding events with duplicate teams (plus you save on a second registration). The next year, they can go on to start their own teams with the benefit of a year's worth of experience. Once they start a team, mentor them, but don't coddle them.

Team 1114 is actually in the process of doing this already. We have our "virtual team". Notre Dame SS is the midst of their virtual season. They attended our brainstorming sessions, and have been coming to our competitions as well. We've donated our old KOPs to them, and they're slowing building their own robot, under the guidance of our mentors and students. Their goal is to have their own robot ready to compete in this fall's Canada's Wonderland Invitational. After completing this virtual season, they'll be ready to jump into 2007.

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

Perhaps as a part of this challenge, NiagaraFIRST can create some sort of presentation, packet or guide for other teams to follow in order to start a similar program.

This will be an off-season project for the team.