[Rosiebotboss]

Maybe "cheating" was a bad choice of words. Our philosophy is focused on the learning experience. Along with the learning is the experience of a very real deadline. The students may not that in a classroom. If a term paper is turned in late, you may get marked down a grade. If a robot is shipped late, you don't play.

Sometimes engineering is a trade off. Or how to make the best decision given two options. If I spend time doing this, then I will not have time to develop that fully. I think that is the whole reason of the six weeks. It shouldn't be a "We can build a robot that can do everything" situation. Its more of a "we built a robot that does this very well.........and we're good at this other thing."

Besides, there are plenty of other programs out there for keeping your core group together and designing and building things. Look at our Road Iron project, the pothole detector. All the motors, controls, pneumatics etc are FIRST kit parts...................