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Our team this year is about 30. Of that I have 11 programmers. I am very excited to have a team with so many students that are interested in programming. I have been teaching programming classes all summer. I have the student broken into small groups and writing their own code. There are two to three students per computer. They are just now getting to the point where we will be putting their code on the robot and seeing what they learned all summer. They are excited and so am I.

My plan for this up coming season is to break the programming group into a few groups. I will have a couple of teams that program the robot and a few that are working on the dashboard. I will have them compete to see who can build the better code. The winning team will be in the pits for competitions. I hope to get better more engaged programmers, better programs, and more ideas this way. I am hoping that we can take the things that work the best from each team and make them into a super code of all of the ideas.

This is the first year I have had so many programmers so I will see how this model works.