[Skehtb]

This year, the process was managed by one of our mentors. Even though most of the team members did participate, most of the the dicisions were made by this mentor together with the team manager and captains. About 70% of the kids don't feel that the robot is "thiers", the feel that it's the mentor's robot. Another reason for that feeling is that the robot was manufactured in one of our sponsor's workshop, and the kids didn't really build it.
I'm pretty sure next year won't be that way, but in my two years experience i've seen two kinds of robots - A robot that was 90% of the kids (by bulding and design) and didn't played well at all, and a robot that was 20% of the kids (like this year) that played pretty well, except for some software problems..

One of my friends told me that - "I'd rather build the entire robot by myself and lose, than not build the robot at all and still lose!" (even though this year a sponsor helped us to build our robot, we are not the regional winners (and I'll add that information - most of the teams that compete in our regional are teams withour factory and engineers that help them and build their robots).

At the bottom line, I'll be glad to hear you advices about how can we, as a team, create a balance between those two situation that I wrote about: We want the kids to be more involved at the building and designing of the robot, but still build a great robot that could win!