[Adam Richards]

While I think it would probably be best for the students to both design and build the robot with assistance from Engineers throughout the process, if mentors/engineers had to do one, and students had another, I would have to go with "Engineer/Mentor Designed and Student Built".

Students need to see how to get around design challenges. When you're handed blueprints, not everything is going to work in real life. Something is probably going to be off in a blueprint, such as robot stability or a few measurements, and students should learn how to critically think to get around such problems. If all students did was hand mentors basic designs and then had the engineers/mentors use their creative license and technical knowledge to build it, it would really be more of the mentors' robot than the students', since the students won't fully be in the whole building process.