[Ryan Foley]

Training you say?

well since my team has been inactive for 2 years (at least in official competition) we have been training the team so that way we will be ready when we become an official team. These training activities have included

modifying our 2001 robot to play the 2002 game
building a robot (from scratch) that had to open a door
modifying our 2000 and 2001 robots to play the 2003 game

all of those robots were designed and built entirely by students, no engineers. They all met as many regulations as possible (obviously, we didnt have 2002 or 2003 parts, so somtimes we had to use parts not in the kit, i.e. we dont have any 120amp circuit breakers for 2003, so we used 60 amp)

these activities work really well. They are worth a try (and they keep old bots form collecting dust)