[A. Leese]

On my team, the work is equally shared in many aspects. We've always had a great deal of students who about live to design, build, and test our bot.
Our engineers mainly do the design, but they take any and all suggestions that students come up with in designing the bot. Pretty much, we come up with ideas, they explain why or why they wouldn't work, then all of our ideas are put on paper by the engineers (mainly b/c most of the people with ideas have never even used CAD or AutoCAD in their life).

Once it gets down to building the bot, things are a little different. Until this next season, we've always had two adults machine most of the parts, do to a lack of equipment that we have access to (due to age and location). Some parts students make, but the actually heavy machining is up to the adults. Building the bot itself is everyone's job, whether they want it to be or not. It's not like we're forced to put something together but if you're in the SPAM Pit with nothing obvious that you're doing (generally if you're not on the programing team or doing the newsletter/site), you are, um, highly encouraged by one of the adults to help out. Each year a few specific students will take over and do most of the work.

In those last about six hours, when all of us students are home asleep after being at the SPAM Pit for 12 plus hours straight, the engineers finish up the last minute things (which usually involves screwing everything together and getting rid of extra weight). So. Yeah. We all build it. It could be a bit better about students getting a say in the design of the bot, but it's good as it is.

~Angela who just realized she's been too hard on her team's engineers in the past