Duplication of programs as it relates to Chairman's

[Alan Anderson]

"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery." -- Charles Caleb Colton

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27484.html

[Chris Fultz]

One of the criteria for the Chairman's Award is that a team is a
"model for other teams to emulate". This means teams shoud share their ideas and successes, and others should feel free to copy them, use them, and make them better.

If a team has used another team's ideas, then the team should give credit for that, possibly even saying,

"team 9999 did something like this last year. We researched what they did, and expanded and adapted it for our program...".

that would show that:

1) you stay in touch with what other teams are doing
2) you can adapt and adopt others ideas to fit your program
3) you are honest

Many Chairman's judges ask where an idea came from - teams should be honest about that.

[colin340]

i feel that well Imitation may be well intended often it leads to a lack of quality because the team may not see the reason that they are there to give that demo or mentor that fll team. i feel when it comes down to why you want to win
and to be frank, you shouldn't just want to win. the reason to go demos and such, for the smiles radiate from a kid that just learned how to program or a charity that questions you about why a robotics team cares about there cause and in there end that smile
is the biggest award you can ever win

now i use to go to demos and mentor to win but now i go cuz i like to

as for rees i think over the years i have learned more about philanthropy than robots from him

colin

[Pavan Dave]

If it isn't copyrighted, patented, or trademarked its not theft, thus no citation is needed nor any feelings need be hurt.