[ThaddeusMaximus]

Rookie team lead student here.

That giant electronics box is a bad idea.

Bite off a little more. But not everything; keep that design simple.

No mecanums. No fancy drivetrains.

Do actual strategic analysis and weighted tables.

Worm gears, set screws, lead screws, and keyways are your enemies and need to be avoided or mitigated; their ways must be learned.

Don't do familiar things. This is a learning experience, and oftentimes the familiar thing is actually much harder than the right thing.
- Adopt CAD earlier
- Adopt encoders earlier, ditch pots
- Adopt pneumatics earlier

Go over your mentors when applicable. They have some wild**** half-baked ideas. You put in quite a few out-of-place hours, but should have been more serious about that.

Push for weight savings and do some self study on structural engineering.

You'll find this out, but you're an ME who loves code/wiring. You really should be focusing on the mechanical side of things; you have controls on more lock than you put in time for.

Indirectly related to FRC: start taking community college courses ASAP, the credit transfer is wonderful and you wouldn't have had to take Physics/Chem/Calc 3/DiffEq at college. It takes as much time as being homeschooled currently does- you'll have 50% of your time devoted to FRC still.