I have only one thing to bring up that hasn't been said yet. When a person describes a robot as being "mentor built" they are rudely stating that the students were completly imcapable of desiging, building, and programing a quality robot. It is a rude comment that only insults the students and makes the speaker sound like a Missouri Mule. I say this because unless you have knowledge of how a particular team operates then you have no right to claim this. It greatly upsets me when I hear that Team xxxx has a mentor built robot. Then I ask the person how they know that for certain, then that speaker says erll the robot is just beyond student quality. Encounters like this turn my face
. Encounters like these can change if teams instead of complaining about "mentor built robots" go and learn about these inspiring robots. You might just learn a lot about what it takes to build a fantastic robot.