[jratcliff]

Our team is going to try to build two robots, we will see how it goes.

This is my first year involved in FRC as an adult adviser so I'm learning everything as I go. However, what I have been told is that, in the past, a few key senior guys tend to do most of the work and there are a whole bunch of other students kind of standing around.

If you build two robots at once, it seems to me, that you can institute a mentoring system so that a junior student is always mirroring what the senior student is building.

Of course this might make things take a bit longer but, then again, those seniors will all be gone next year and this kind of hands-on mentoring is absolutely required to leave the team in good shape for the next season.

Well, that was my thinking at least. We will see how it turns out.

John