[baronep]

I am the designer of the aforementioned cannon from 2848. While the depletion of resources is a concern, I feel that practicing the process of building a robot outside of the competition is crucial to becoming a competitive team. (Take something like the SAT for analogy: No one would think that going into the test (a timed, stressful test) without any sort of practice would be a good thing.)

The main goal of building the cannon was not to raise money for our team, instead the main goals were to raise awareness for the club and to practice developing a robot with our newly acquired machining sponsors.

Practice makes perfect