[Billfred]

The answer is: It's hard to say.

I mean, you can bust out a team of engineers and crank it out, or master the art of ghettofab and still be competitive. But if you can have someone (whether student, engineer, or teacher) who has some knowledge in electrical circuitry, mechanical principles, fabrication, and programming, you should be alright. Bonus points for pneumatics.

However, don't discount other fields. An art teacher to help get the robot running with everything else for the Imagery Award can be very useful, for example.

And of course, you can always ask us on ChiefDelphi. We usually know what we're talking about.