[Chris Nowak]

autonomous mode is incredibly cool....it gives people a chance to show off the versatility of their programming skills. I think it really broadens FIRST b/c in years past programming has not been such a big deal(at least on our team) and it gives those people who are in depth programmers a reason to do FIRST.

Next year it would be cool if they made even more sensors and perhaps the ability to create a sort of artificial intelligence for the robot(extremely limited probably). Thats probably not realistic for next year but if sometime in the future they could make robots which could sense where practically anything on the field is and act accordingly. Of course, once it hits this point, programming will probably be equal in importance as engineering. Oh well, I really enjoyed this years game partly because of the autonomous.