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We assign a Pit Crew, which this year consists of 2 D&M students, an Energy System/Electrical student, 1-2 Programmers and a Mentor to supervise. These are usually senior members of the team who are highly knowledgeable about the robot and can serve the dual purpose of speaking about the robot when asked to, and they can fix the robot REALLY fast to boot.

On 610, we try and keep our own team members out of our own pit as much as possible for a few reasons.

1: Pit Crew should be focusing on keeping the robot in top shape, and having team members pop by to chat while they're furiously working on the robot is obviously not very productive.
1a: Having a large group of students standing around in your own pit is pretty poor for public image imo, because it gives off the illusion that only a few people are doing work, while a large group of people stand by and watch.

2: Having large amounts of people around our own pit is disruptive. The pits are pretty small, and are barely large enough to fit 5-6 people working + a robot + tools. Any extra people will be standing in the pit walkways, which are supposed to be kept as clear as possible for robots to come through.