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Posted by Mike Kulibaba.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Student on team #88, TJ², from Bridgewater-Raynham Regional and Johnson and Johnson.

Posted on 11/7/99 9:10 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Imaging a modular tank... posted by Michael Martus on 11/7/99 7:34 PM MST:



I myself like the 6 week period for build. It's brings the team closer and makes them interact with the engineers for long hours which helps get the whole team closer. I think if you use the approach where Build is spread out from January until your first regional or until Florida I think it would take away from some of the team unity but it would put less stress with everyone. I was then thinking that what if you had to ship the robot after 6 weeks and then got to keep it after the regional. But that wouldn't work cause some teams only go to the nationals and other teams that go to Conn and San Jose would be at a major disadvantage then the teams that go to the Florida or Michigan regionals and would get there robot back with time to work on it. I can see how FIRST wants to make it even by not giving teams those 3 days to tinker with a robot because that would be unfair to the teams that go to San Jose or Conn cause they wouldn't have the 3 days to work on their robots. I think FIRST did the right thing by doing this but i really hope it doesn't take away from the level of competition cause I like the rough play we had last year.

Kuli TJ² Team 88