Programming team?
Hey, we actually have one of those this year! Just me and our super-awesome mentor the last two years, which worked pretty well but we never had a good chance at testing things (probably due to small size of programming team and thus smaller time allotted by other subteams for us to work on). Somehow, in my final year, we managed to pull 5 or 6 more people in, and in our second day of messing around with LabVIEW I've already managed to get them to edit and download several programs without my help!
I know a lot of people like to program in solitude, but (at least to me) teaching people and watching them soak in all the hard-earned knowledge you've gained over the years is an eletrifying feeling! I can't wait to see what our team comes up with this year
(Heck, we got "those darned encoders!" from two years ago working perfectly in one try in LabVIEW! This year's gonna be awesome...)