Team 217 - Thunderchickens

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22-03-2010, 22:11

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Re: Team 217 - Thunderchickens

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Originally Posted by babycakes

This team is way overated. It easy to make a good robot when ALL your parts are machined in Texas and shipped back and pop riveted together. The students learn alot about problem solving there.

The rest of your post is pretty straightforward and insulting to everyone on 217, so I'll save my negative words on that for the reputation bar, but I actually have a question / point to make about the above part.

Has anyone learned anything about problem solving from operating the machines that make parts? I learn a lot more about problem solving by designing a robot than by fabricating parts! Fabrication isn't engineering, design is, and engineering is essentially problem solving. So if students are solving the really tough problems, who cares that a sheet metal facility bent some parts for them?

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