[Tom Ore]

Everything takes longer than you think it should - even for veteran teams. Take stock of where you are with your robot and what is left to do. Prioritize what must be done and what you would like to do. It's perfectly okay to do a very basic robot in your rookie year - this may mean a robot with no arm. My guess is there will be a lot of game pieces tossed onto the field and a pusher robot may be able to heard them to the scoring area for alliance partners to score.

If you decide to do an arm there are a lot of details to work through. How high do you want to reach, how fast should it move, how much will it weigh, what type of drive system, how to connect up all the different parts of the system. This may be a good excersize even if you don't have time to finish. By working through the details as far as you can get you'll be in a better position for next year.