[Lavapicker]

Wow, you took some hits on your comments on this one! Its a shame it had to be anonymous. I'm all with you on it however! For some teams this has become a glorified pinewood derby where the adults build the robot and the kids drive. We all see it so get your heads out of the sand everyone! What to do about it? There is no formula of what percentage has to be built by students and I don't think you could enforce one anyway. You just have to be satisfied that students on those teams are not going to get the same experience as yours. I can tesitfy that coming from a team with one single mentor for four years, a fantastic one by the way, and with a budget where some teams spend more on one wheel than we spend on the entire robot you can still build a robot that can do very well. If its about the students then the game is just a game and the process of learning that takes place is more important in the long run anyway. Yes, you will have losing years when kids rotate through and you have to start all over but who is the real loser? I'd say the students who are adult driven teams.