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+一二三四-->[TITLE]                                                           [DATE]
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+I'm stepping down as vice president of ORION, below is my reasoning for leaving.
+
+- - - - - - - - - - - - ---=[Why I'm Leaving ORION]=--- - - - - - - - - - - - -
+
+-Preface:
+
+	To start off, I'd like to say that I don't think there's anything
+objectively wrong with ORION, and that I'm leaving mostly because it wasn't what
+I expected it to be. I wish the remaining members of ORION good luck on their
+mission.
+
+-The Mandelbots:
+
+	ORION was founded initally as a way for us to get funding for our
+robotics team, The Mandelbots. This was the reason I joined ORION, but after the
+last competition season I feel that that's no longer the case. ORION has moved
+on to different goals, and I feel has distracted us from robotics.
+	Despite efforts by all of us to avoid them, we ran into the same issues
+of bad time management that we did last year. In order to fund our team we had
+to apply for grants through ORION, most of which only came in close to our
+qualifier date. As a result the parts that we needed to build our robot came in
+3 days before the qualifier, giving us only 3 days to build. However, the
+late-coming grants don't explain why for the months before that, little or no
+progress was made on the aspects of robotics that weren't so dependent on new
+parts. For example, coding started only about a week before the competition, and
+very few prototypes were built with the parts that we had from last season.
+	During those months without parts, we spent most of our meetings working
+on other things. I admit, I too am guilty of this, but the one thing that has
+taken up the most time in our robotics meetings was ORION. The thing with ORION
+work is that the tasks it involves like applying for grants and planning for
+future projects are all official business related to robotics, but nonetheless
+are not robotics.  So in my opinion they merely presented us with a more
+acceptable way to procrastinate on the robot. We even had members of the team
+who spent almost every meeting working on ORION projects that had nothing to do
+with robotics.
+	There's nothing inherently wrong with focusing on ORION with our time,
+but it's not what I signed up for and it's not why I agreed to host our robotics
+meetings.
+
+-The Future of ORION:
+
+	"ORION is a stem nonprofit ..." is how we would always introduce
+ourselves while doing outreach, but it doesn't say much about our goals and how
+we aim to acheive them. What ORION currently has in the works is a python class
+and a potential robotics camp in Ghana. Personally, I disagree with these
+projects, but this is in no way some sort of indictment. 
+	For one, a single member of ORION has been the only one working on the
+python class, and has requested that they be the only one to teach it. In the
+months they have been working on the curriculum they have never even shown it to
+other members of ORION, as far as I am aware of. There's nothing objectively bad
+about this but I personally feel that given the python class is one of our main
+focuses, there should be more collaboration involving all of us.
+	Ghana on the otherhand, I disagree with on the basis that it's too
+misdirected. Why is it that we are running these camps in far off places with a
+vaguely humanitarian goal? Shouldn't we focus on our own communities, and don't
+they deserve to be taught by people from their own communities? The implication
+has always been that because of economic reasons those communities can not set
+up camps of their own, but if this is true then there are deeper issues to be
+solved. To do things like set up a camp for them is like giving a band-aid to
+someone who's just lost an arm.
+
+-Conclusion:
+
+	It is because of all this that i'd like to leave ORION and will no
+longer mention my previous association elsewhere. I wish the rest of ORION the
+best of luck. This document will be hosted on my personal site, and any current
+members of ORION are welcome to have any comments they have be hosted alongside
+it if they email them to me at 1339802534.kk@gmail.com.
+[SETTITLE]Leaving ORION
+[SETDATE]2-9-2018
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+<head>
+<title>Leaving ORION</title>
+<meta charset="utf-8"/>
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"/>
+<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="img/fav/logo.png"/>
+</head>
+<body>
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+<pre>
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+<a href="http://hairydiode.xyz">>HairyDiode</a>                                             
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+一二三四-->Leaving ORION                                                           2-9-2018
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+I'm stepping down as vice president of ORION, below is my reasoning for leaving.
+
+- - - - - - - - - - - - ---=[Why I'm Leaving ORION]=--- - - - - - - - - - - - -
+
+-Preface:
+
+	To start off, I'd like to say that I don't think there's anything
+objectively wrong with ORION, and that I'm leaving mostly because it wasn't what
+I expected it to be. I wish the remaining members of ORION good luck on their
+mission.
+
+-The Mandelbots:
+
+	ORION was founded initally as a way for us to get funding for our
+robotics team, The Mandelbots. This was the reason I joined ORION, but after the
+last competition season I feel that that's no longer the case. ORION has moved
+on to different goals, and I feel has distracted us from robotics.
+	Despite efforts by all of us to avoid them, we ran into the same issues
+of bad time management that we did last year. In order to fund our team we had
+to apply for grants through ORION, most of which only came in close to our
+qualifier date. As a result the parts that we needed to build our robot came in
+3 days before the qualifier, giving us only 3 days to build. However, the
+late-coming grants don't explain why for the months before that, little or no
+progress was made on the aspects of robotics that weren't so dependent on new
+parts. For example, coding started only about a week before the competition, and
+very few prototypes were built with the parts that we had from last season.
+	During those months without parts, we spent most of our meetings working
+on other things. I admit, I too am guilty of this, but the one thing that has
+taken up the most time in our robotics meetings was ORION. The thing with ORION
+work is that the tasks it involves like applying for grants and planning for
+future projects are all official business related to robotics, but nonetheless
+are not robotics.  So in my opinion they merely presented us with a more
+acceptable way to procrastinate on the robot. We even had members of the team
+who spent almost every meeting working on ORION projects that had nothing to do
+with robotics.
+	There's nothing inherently wrong with focusing on ORION with our time,
+but it's not what I signed up for and it's not why I agreed to host our robotics
+meetings.
+
+-The Future of ORION:
+
+	"ORION is a stem nonprofit ..." is how we would always introduce
+ourselves while doing outreach, but it doesn't say much about our goals and how
+we aim to acheive them. What ORION currently has in the works is a python class
+and a potential robotics camp in Ghana. Personally, I disagree with these
+projects, but this is in no way some sort of indictment. 
+	For one, a single member of ORION has been the only one working on the
+python class, and has requested that they be the only one to teach it. In the
+months they have been working on the curriculum they have never even shown it to
+other members of ORION, as far as I am aware of. There's nothing objectively bad
+about this but I personally feel that given the python class is one of our main
+focuses, there should be more collaboration involving all of us.
+	Ghana on the otherhand, I disagree with on the basis that it's too
+misdirected. Why is it that we are running these camps in far off places with a
+vaguely humanitarian goal? Shouldn't we focus on our own communities, and don't
+they deserve to be taught by people from their own communities? The implication
+has always been that because of economic reasons those communities can not set
+up camps of their own, but if this is true then there are deeper issues to be
+solved. To do things like set up a camp for them is like giving a band-aid to
+someone who's just lost an arm.
+
+-Conclusion:
+
+	It is because of all this that i'd like to leave ORION and will no
+longer mention my previous association elsewhere. I wish the rest of ORION the
+best of luck. This document will be hosted on my personal site, and any current
+members of ORION are welcome to have any comments they have be hosted alongside
+it if they email them to me at 1339802534.kk@gmail.com.
+</pre>
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