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Bad, bad, bad!!!
Posted by Daniel.
Coach on team BORG (Berkeley Operational Robotics Group) from Berkeley High School sponsored by (working on the sponsor, too).
Posted on 1/12/2000 12:12 AM MST
Maybe it's just me...
I am NOT a fan of rule M20 in update #1. Here's my reasoning:
I am a strong advocate of students doing a bulk of the work for this competition, and having engineers taking more of an advising role. This makes six weeks seem a lot shorter. Students are far less experienced, so it takes them an average of 1.5 times as long to get anything done. Doing the calculation: 6 weeks / 1.5 unproductively = 4 weeks.
Perhaps the less student oriented teams can use those extra 2 weeks to build spare parts but I know my team has NEVER had time during the actual production period to make this happen. I'd hate to see teams unable to compete because they have no replacement parts for things that have broken.
Maybe FIRST needs a tighter policy on how similar replacement parts must be, but I think this rule is far overboard.
Any other thoughts?
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