[Uberbots]

We have an application, but its really just to get a feel for the strengths of our members, and where we should focus on improvement for the year. The only time we really reject someone is if they are a consistent negative influence, they are unproductive, or they get the team in trouble. So far, this has never happened (knocks on wood).

your idea for limiting applications though is flawed, because many people who want to join the robot team dont feel inspired to do much until they have been on the team for a while (i stress many because i know this isnt true for all). I think your idea of action, though would be positive in the buisiness world, actually goes against what first is trying to promote. you sure wouldnt get an engineering inspiration award.

I think though, that your idea of 'selling' robot designs is a very good one. We do a similar thing with a KJ process every year, break off into prototyping teams, and get going. Only the best of the drawn designs get prototyped, only they best (components) of the prototypes get built, and so on until we have a robot.