How do you know that was the case for his entire team? Maybe he just had bad attendence during the build season or some other reason that he didn't point out. I wouldn't trust the word of one team member on something like that. I don't doubt that something like that exists, but I'd check into it some more before I would go off believing that.

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I’m personally more favored to the engineering assisted team, but I’m going to put that aside for a second to say this:

I don’t understand why it should matter if your robot is 100% student built, 100% engineer built or somewhere in between. As long as you are Inspired (I word again) FIRST is getting its point and primary goal across.