I guess my web design skills are worth plagiarizing! I’ve been working on a web design for Pittsford Robotics over the past couple of weeks, and I put it up to show the team what it looked like. Little did I realize that the ethics of one of the students were low enough to steal my code, design, CSS, and images. Aside from being wrapped into a Joomla template the code was exactly the same.

Last I knew plagiarism was extremely against the Pittsford Central Schools district policy. Guess who’s got a board meeting soon...
We’ll see how this goes, but this just shows me exactly why I’m not going to stay with them. It also shows that they really need to work on their ethics before seriously considering participating as a team in FIRST.

If they put my design up again against my will, I will be sure the district pulls the plug on the club and that FIRST understands their intellectual theft.

Good riddance, Pittsford Panthers Robotics.