The meaning behind the game.......

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Posted by Matt Leese at 04/10/2001 4:05 PM EST


Other on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.


In Reply to: Re: The meaning behind the game.......
Posted by Justin Hirt on 04/10/2001 2:34 PM EST:



: #2) To screw over Chief Delphi and other engineer
: run teams. They tried to create a game where you
: don't have to have a engineer built robot to win

Ok, I take offense to this. First of all, I don't know of any teams run completely by engineers. You know why? Because it'd be pointless to do so. Because the whole point of FIRST is to encourage engineering and having students sit and watch doesn't accomplish that. What you might have wanted to say is teams that have more money but that isn't true either. Money has very little to do with designing a good robot it just ends up that the programs with the most involved people have the most money -- not vice-versa. Second, FIRST is agnostic to who does the construction and designing. They're more interested in encouraging science, math, and engineering. However, it is the general consensus (as far as I can tell) that the best way to go about it is to have engineers working with students on the robot. Neither students working alone nor engineers working alone. And I bet that there's a fair chance you would've thought my team's robot was engineer built. Well, guess what, it was almost completely built by students (the rest being done by teachers). We had zero engineers. It just happens that our students happen to be excellent machinists. I'm sorry for ranting but that comment just set me off.

Matt