[Cothron Theiss]

We didn't exactly set out at the beginning of the season to do this, but we actually let the driver/programmer drive almost every build session we had this season (once we had an operational chassis). Each night, one mentor (a few would rotate out so as to lessen mentor burnout), me, the driver, and one of three other build members would stay from 30 minutes to an hour after everyone else left to test code and get in driver practice. If a sub-assembly wasn't operational, it was either removed temporarily or strapped down so we could drive. All season long, our programming mentor worked on vision code for a low-goal autonomous, but it never got close enough to completion to try out on the robot. Other than that, all of our code was pretty battle tested by the time we bagged.