I definitely agree that it is seen on all teams where there is only a handful of people who build the robot. I completely put this thing together for our team, 295 and it was quite a ton of work and effort, but it was worth it. This year, we had a grand total of five members, no school support or other adults, besides my dad, and we actually ended up building it in my garage.
Just curious, but did we make the record of having the smallest team ever?
It was quite funny at competition when alliances looked up in the stands and went "there's are team!, where's your's?" and I'd reply "we are all on the field, right here=)"
But back to the whole "team building" it is a very, very hard thing...I found that you do have to make things fun so people will come, which in my case I really needed, include everyone, haha that wasn't hard considering Whit and I basically built the whole robot, Matt had programming, Mike did pnuematics, and Lucas did the odd jobs when asked...
Keeping things fun always helps too, I made that a goal of ours from the beginning, as obviously with four other people I wasn't expecting to win the SacRegional but it was for fun and learning. By the way anyone who is interested we did finish the bot in time, without a shop and in my garage, five people and all, ended up 17th which made me very happy!
