[computer411]

I am part of a team that had no technical advisors for the first year. We completely designed and built OUR robot. We were proud of it and had no complaints and no regrets. We saw the competition as a learning experience, not Solely as a competition. I have found through my travels that the mentors are not just mentors. They help with the design, building, and troubleshooting of a robot. I saw one team whose robot had an electrical issue, and the mentors were the one fixing the robot, while the students were fooling around. I could say that that first year we were them ones fixing our robot when an error occurred, no matter what system it affected, in fact because we had designed our own system, the adults had no idea how to fix it. The FRC is a high school event, made to bring out new engineers and techs for today's world, not a place for ADULT engineers to duke out robots against each other.They are there only to help the teams out, not to completely design the robot which most of the time happens with a team that has technical advisors.