Very well said. What is necessary is not more students, or more engineers, but a balance. Each team should have at least one, preferably two, engineers but probably won't need more than about four, or they can gang together and lose the learning aspect. I certainly wish that we had someone knowledgeable to give us advice . . .

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Im sorry, but alot of people believe that engeneers are necessary to build a good robot...well last year as rookies with 2 teachers and 8 students we seeded 3rd int eh toronto regional...same this year, we jsut have a few more students, most of them being juniors and not knowing what they are doing...our belief thruout is that theres no limits on our ideas...and once we have thsoe figured out, there is absolutley no problem in making it, because its a collective effort...even though we still dont have the robot finished....and there are only a few days to go, we will get it done, it will run, and it will do well.
I stand by my belief that there is no greater learnin experience than putting your hands on something...