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Q 178

Per I1, the ROBOT includes the BUMPERS, and per R12, the BOM consists of all items on the ROBOT (granting exceptions). As a service project, one of our members planted seeds that have now become trees, if we wish to use the wood from the trees after cutting and planing to create our BUMPERS, is it acceptable to account for the cost of the seed as the fair market value of the wood? R15 allows bumpers to be created prior to kickoff.

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Per R14, you will need to consider both raw material and labor to determine Fair Market Value of the wood, though labor done by team members does not count. In this specific instance, labor was done both by team members and Mother Nature, who surely had a hand in developing the seed into a tree. A clever team will consider Mother Nature to be a team member, sidestepping the issue of valuing her work, which a reasonably astute observer would correctly identify as priceless, making your robot worthy of adoration, but unworthy of passing inspection per R12

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@marshall please don’t ask your newest team member to assist you by using weather.

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So, 900:

Pics or it didn’t happen.

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