[Potato]

Hey!

Our team is somewhat new, and this year we have a fairly large dearth of experience - last year, everybody but a few returning seniors and one junior on our team was new to FIRST, and we didn't have a system in place to educate new members.

As a consequence, during the build season, we were unable to get very involved in the design process - we just gave our mentors general ideas of what we wanted to build (i.e, a scissor lift), and they worked out all of the specifics (i.e. setting up our electronics and positioning our motors to actuate our lift) for us and told us what to build, which seemed pretty unfair to our mentors.

To remedy this, we're planning on holding classes on basic design and building before this year's build season begins. However, we're not exactly sure of what we should try to learn to become capable of being more involved in the designing/building process. Do you guys have any recommendations?

Thanks!