[Jon Stratis]

I'd love to get to a point where the robot was designed fully in CAD and a sponsor made all the parts. As it is, almost all of our parts are made in-house by the team. We did some CNC in our second and third years, but moved away from it because it was an all-mentor effort. We felt the team got more out of the program doing the work themselves, and none of us were really up to the task of teaching CAD so they could do it themselves. We've since been gradually increasing our student CAD capabilities, mostly through our 3D printer's. We might start having students sending designs to be CNC'd next year it so.