Wow, thanks for all the offers, FIRST truly is a great organization.
I am not entirely sure of how the pits are going to be laid out this year, a lot has changed since I last attended in 2011. I can't imagine that I'd be too different so there are bound to be several divisions within close proximity of one another.
I feel that there is so much to be gained by just having other teams go over ideas with each other, it really is unfortunate that 876 is sending the skeleton crew/ inexperienced crew, this would be a tremendous opportunity to dig ourselves out of the programming rut I have slowly been climbing out over during the 2012-2014 seasons while I was lead student programmer.
Since I will not be attending and our lead student programmer is on drive-team we do not have any "seasoned" programmers to go over code with you guys, so it'll have to stick to an "in event of emergency" setup.
We are golden in terms of mechanical and electrical, we have some amazing mentors going with that know their stuff. I don't foresee that ever being a problem. Thanks for the offers though.
There are other niches in the team that I fill that will be void during worlds, as tempting as it is to get input and mentorship from other teams for these specific roles, it is probably best to try and "force" the students to solve them on their own, (the students at least LOOK capable
).
-Skye