this year I am the only member on our team with experience. It's hard to have to go through the whole brainstorming, design, and building process when you're the only one who has experience. It's a slow and painful process having to teach people how to use a mill or a lathe. especially having to show them again and again because they keep forgetting. There's also the other problem. A lot of them don't realise how much effort has to be put into this in order to succeed. I'm trying to get at least 50% attendance from everybody, but so far i'm the only one who has been there more than 50% of the time. so nobody knows what's happened to the robot designwise and what changes have been made. The Freshmen on our team were usually ignored on the earlier years until this year (since they're all freshmen except for me) so they were a little more involved and take a look at what they accomplished.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=Verbose
That's truly an awesome paintjob from our freshmen.
moral of the story: don't judge a book by it's cover?