[Joe J.]

This has been my 4th year FIRST as a student. This build season has lived up to my expectations fairly well. We built our team's most complex robot to date, and we did it without a machine shop. This years bot is about 10 times more complex than last years and we managed to get it working before ship

Getting the robot done is a big accomplishment for any team.

My team likes to joke about our 2003 robot that couldn't run a match without blowing up a transmission (we refer to it as the worst FIRST robot ever) And our 2004 robot that went into the crate with a non working drive train that was too complex to fix, and plans to install a new one on practice day, even that one didn't work well.