[Laxphan1525]

I can totally see your point in this discussion Craig. My team is a huge group of people and we welcome everyone. However every year it ends up being a small select few who make a big commitment generally seniors and finish the whole project. I see a lot of teams out there who have great robots but many of them have several well educated mentors who have been doing this for awhile helping them if not doing the entire thing. Our team doesn’t have these kinds of resources. To be honest i would love to be on a team who all appreciated all the opportunities FIRST has to offer as much as me. So in that respect if i was in charge of a team i would try and build a team of dedicated students who have a developed understanding of each aspect of robotics. I think a team of at least 20 to 30 dedicated students could split the work involved with first pretty equally and they would be able to create a very competitive robot. However the major thing i love about our team is we are completely student run and i was able to design, fabricate, and build every component on our robot. I think i would greatly miss this kind of opportunity on a team dominated by mentors.