I was also at the WPI Frontiers program last year (2005) as an incoming junior in the Robotics class, and I loved it. So much so that I signed up again this year for the Mechanical Engineering class, since that is my favorite part of robotics. Last year I loved using the Vex kits during the course. Although it was not my first time using the Vex kits, I loved the indepth course about the mechanical design and programming of the Vex kits.
Much of what I learned (mechanical and programming) from Frontiers I later applied to my subsequent Vex bots (
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