[Mc Kenna]

I would just like to add that while 254 might have more in the way of sponsors and mentors/college students than other teams i have never seen them do any thing but go out of their way to help all the teams in the area, and any time my team needed help all we had to do was ask and 254 did every thing they could do to help us. they are the ones who bring a machine shop to SVR and SAC, while some people might hold it against them that have the resources to have this shop, they would have them any ways and they deserve credit for the fact they use the resources they have to help other teams. but finally no matter how much money you have unless you can get your team to work together you will not come up with winning robots. And while their mentors might work on the robot, isn't that their job? to help teach students, and from what i have seen from 254 if there were 4 mentors helping on the robot i would be surprised if there were not students helping or learning. i think the reason why 254 get so much flack for any thing they do is people assume they get it all handed to them but thats not the case, at least from what i have seen of their team. After all they did not win Chairman's award for no reason.