I am a coach of a middle school IQ team. This weekend we had our regional tournament and world qualifier. I was shocked to see the number of teams that came out of nowhere with a copied YouTube robot. If you are one of these teams, you might as well have had an adult design it for you or ordered i…

Normally with robot reveals, the teams don’t make it easy for the students to copy the designs. The kids will make a video of the robot will typically show as much of the functionality with as little of the magic as possible. For example, they will show that it can high hang, but do so from a weir…

But i have a question. is it plagarism if you use your own words (make your own modifications on a base you copied the idea of?

[image] Entropy: Vex is for teaching kids engineering. When they grow up and if they try to become engineers, they will have learned that copying others ideas are fair game. If they cannot use their own logic and think and build by themselves, vex is useless as a teaching tool. Oh, let me tel…

My goal as a coach is to teach the design process. That process includes brainstorming, decision matrices, pro/con evaluations, prototypes, failure, lessons learned, try again, probably fail again, cycle continues until success. Failures are great teaching moments and they make better engineers.…

Perfect, winning Excellence or Design is better than winning the event. It shows that the team has mastered all the skills that everyone can use in the future. I’m OK with a team using the “Tube Bot” ™ and then improving it. That gets you into the design cycle also. TBH, it’s very few times in m…

[image] Foster: Perfect, winning Excellence or Design is better than winning the event. It shows that the team has mastered all the skills that everyone can use in the future. IMHO, winning Excellence or Design is winning the event.

[image] sankeydd: winning Excellence or Design is winning the event. So is winning excellence, skills and tourtament champion overachieveing then? :wink: (we did that once this season)

To me, the excellence winner is the sole champion of the event. The award description says it’s the highest award at an event

lol YES!!! However, I love it because it sends a couple of extra states spots to the skills list. So, good job!

What in the world!! Good work, but how in the world were you paired with yourselves? And why does it say there are four tournament champions??

Copied YouTube robots

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sankeydd March 7, 2022, 5:45pm 27

IMHO, winning Excellence or Design is winning the event.