[cbernich]

I agree with wayne, If the Students do not get to build the robot themselves wheres the fun in that? Not to mention the sense of accomplishment. When my team looks back on our building period we can say wow, look at what we have designed and created practically from nothing and look at what it can do, without that feeling I doubt the competitions would be as fun for us. It is one thing to have engineers helping out in the backround, but to have them build it themselves and then handing it to a team to play is ridiculous. Without the hands on experience what have you gained as a person from the program?