Originally Posted by Jared Russell (Post 1611189)

Programming an entire 254 robot to the level of performance the team demands is a challenge for experienced software engineers, let alone high school students ......both students and mentors make direct contributions to the code.

Originally Posted by kiettyyyy (Post 1612811)

I might not be the best person to answer this as well, however, I have had one of their students end up as one of my interns within Qualcomm's Corporate R&D group back in 2013.

He ended up being one of my top interns, able to keep up with the PhD candidates in programming, control theory and hardware concepts... without taking a single college course.