Can a student Coach press the Stop Button

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Posted by colleen - T190 at 03/20/2001 11:38 PM EST


Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science and WPI.


In Reply to: Can a student Coach press the Stop Button
Posted by Derek Olson on 03/20/2001 9:57 PM EST:



after having this issue on a couple of occasions in long island (coaches hitting buttons), the referees started asking specifically before the match "which two are the coaches? you CAN'T hit the button" and knowing which to people were the mentors (regardless of being students or not) they would watch them and they were not allowed to ever hit the button..

so i'm pretty sure even though the rule says (i think) a 'student member' of the team must hit it, it's referring to the drivers/human players and not the mentors.. because if it was simply a basis of student vs. adult.. teams would be at a possible advantage/disadvantage if there are 5 people or only 3 that can hit the button..

as well.. teams like us who have two college students for coaches (who you can't necessarily tell apart from a high school student) could possibly hit the button without anyone being the wiser..

best plan: don't have the coaches do it.. and have one person who's in charge of doing it for every match..