[Tim Delles]

Just to clarify how 229 decides drivers, as a lot of things that have been said we do.

1st, we announce when there are open driver trainings (this is for any student who thinks they would like to drive the robot at competition)

after they have driven the robots around for a while we have driver selection. This is when you are required to do certain tasks that show efficency at the controls. You are also asked a series of questions, both about the game, and the robot. This is to make sure that the drivers we choose can speak openly to our alliance partners and judges about the robot (given everyone on the team is capable of such things we just want to make sure that the drivers know the robot even better, given if something goes wrong on the field they should know exactly what happened so that the pit crew knows were to look)

After this is all done, a committee made up of both high school teachers, the college advisor, another Clarkson Faculty member, and then 3 of the team leaders discuss who should get each position based on efficency of the controls and the speaking part.

Edit: I forgot to mention that no single individual is garaunteed the spot they had the previous year. If someone comes along that is better at that position it will be the better person that gets it.