[KenWittlief]

Tton,

hmmmm......???

if you dont have any engineers or scientist on your team, how are the students learing about science and engineering careers? Im not trying to be condesending, but I think this is part of the problems you are having. You are competing against teams that have engineers, some have many engineers, who are experienced in taking a concept from a wild idea to a working system

It takes years of training and experience to learn how to do that. Nothing against your teacher, lots of teams have little power struggles that go on, with the people from the school wanting to run the team like a sports club, while the engineers are trying to show the amazing things you can do with a well organized and structured engineering project.

Any chance you could recruit a parent or two from the school who are engineers? Im trying not to sound snobby or anything, but it would make a world of difference in your team.

I was on the Xerox / Wilson Xcats two years ago, and decided to move to team 578 because the Xcats had about 20 engineers, and team 578 only had 2.