[Brian Ha]

Our team does a mix of both. Students come up wit goals of wat we want to accomplish. Then u come up wit robots that accomplish those tasks. We do a ranking system thingy that selects the best ribot. The mentors then go into action mode and figure out the best way to design it. Then our parts are all manufactured by one of our mentors wit a waterjet. Then the parts ate brought in and finished cause a waterjet has some faults in it. The kids build the robot, the kids fix the robot. We just get the parts. Thats how it should be done. Not built by the mentors.

While I said all of that wat really matters is whether the kids learned anything. It doesnt matter if its mentor built. Its about expanding ur knowledge.