[bEdhEd]

Can't say there's a "split" in my team, but more of a gradient or a spectrum. I don't recall any students being in one or the other, and I don't recall any students devoting all their time to one or the other. This is why my answer is "no."

I think the reason for this is because each student on 701 is appointed a particular committee related to the robot's construction (Design, Mechanical, Programming, and/or Electrical). Some students may participate in more than one committee per season. Anyone who does public relations will be a part of a robot committee, including those in leadership positions on the team. Even some of those who do lots of work in leadership, outreach, or award projects participate in more than one robot building committee.

At the beginning of the year in the fall, every student has to pass an exam/project that tests them on the basics of the robot construction committees listed above.

Sure, there are students whose major job may be PR, but they're still contributing a major portion of their build season on robot construction in their respective committee on 701.

I do have to say, however, that there may be a slight separation between these construction committees themselves. Design and Mechanical work together very closely, and Programming and Electrical work together very closely, so there's the only divide that I can really vouch for as existent. It's really only until we need to assemble a full robot at the end of the season when they all come together. I remember as a student being in the Mechanical and Design committees and hardly ever seeing the Programming and Electrical students, but whenever I walked in the Electrical committee room, sure enough, there'd be a few programmers working in there testing code with the hardware when they're not in the Programming committee room writing code.