[AustinSchuh]

I am a little nervious about joining the fray, but here is how we are working this year.

I, a student, am the person who designed the WHOLE robot. After the initial design process, I reviewed the design with 254 who graciously agreed to look at it and comment. I then fixed up some things, and went on to visit our machining sponsor. They gave me more suggestions, and I added those. The students then drew up all of the robot, and sent it off to our sponsors and mentors to be machined. Now that the parts are coming back, we the students are putting the robot together.
We work with our mentors and sponsors to check the design, and to machine it. Once the parts get back, the students get to work assembling and making the robot work. We have one machinist mentor who is helping us, but he is mostly helping file the axles he helped make and make the spacers fit. It is great to work with him, since this is the first year we have ever tried to design something in cad Before we make it.
This year, we are some what of a mix of student and mentor built, but I can say with certainty that the students are the driving force behind the design, and the mentors are just helping us get over the quirks that we are running into.