[Levansic]

Now is when you find your true future engineers on your teams.

This may look like a tragedy, but this really is an opportunity for the students to shine. Take some deep breaths and get fixing!

Three years ago, my team pitched in to help a neighboring school's team, which had disintegrated the week before the Las Vegas regional competition. A single girl on their team was academically eligible, so we took her with us to the competition. When we opened their crate, it was apparent that their team had fallen apart well before ship. The carcas of their robot was in much worse shape than what you have pictured.

The girls from our team worked with the remaining member to rebuild her robot, from scratch, in the pits. Many great teams showed tremendous gracious professionalism helping with parts and tools. Eventually, the robot was put together, passed inspection, and hit the field. It was electric!

--Len