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Originally Posted by orangemoore
Our team is really small. We have at the most 15 people. Most of the those people do not come every day and work for all the time so we had to decide to do one thing. My team chose to climb. We ended up spending close to half of our build season building a pyramid corner so that we could corner climb. With a week left we decided to scrap the idea and build a 20 point side climber. Those pictures are of our first legal climb to 20.
I know what you are talking about. In my team I was a huge advocate for not doing a climber because I thought a climber (without a drive train) was an all or nothing approach. I was really surprised and happy that this year in competition we were the 8th seed alliance captain which is the best we have ever done.
There are good things about having a really small team. This year is my freshman year. My team also does FTC where I was one of the hardest working people. Because of that I was able to be the sole operator of our robot. It for me was a great experience.
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If you need help with your small team, I invite you to contact me or another 3476 member. My story:
Last year, I was a freshman, and brought CAD design to the team. We had very limited funds, tools, manpower, or space. We still build our robots out of extruded aluminum in a 2-car garage with a tabletop chopsaw and bandsaw. We built a simple robot- and won SDR with it. We had 15 students on the team, with a ~7 member "core" team. After that season, we impacted over 20,000 people and had our program grow to 22 students representing 16 different high schools and 6 homeschoolers.
We simply worked hard, and because of that we eventually got rewarded for that effort. Anyone can do that.