[azcalg]

Thanks for taking the time to create and share this! It's always been tough figuring out how to teach new members the ropes for us. Last year, one of the mentors had these power points that contained great information but were incredibly boring, and we lost quite a few members because it just wasn't interesting. This year we went about it rather haphazardly with the mentality of, "make stuff and you'll figure it out" and I fear they didn't learn much. Getting new members involved is tough for us because we're at a pretty small school that focuses more on fine arts and people seem to lose interest. As a result, we normally have a team of around 10 kids, half of whom show up for every meeting and while I would like for the mentors to step back at times, we could never get a finished robot without their help.
You might want to add some information about different drive trains and their advantages, talons (is that what the empty page was for?), and pneumatics.