[Iceman1330]

As is echoed by most everyone here, don't give up!!!!

Let me give you some hope. Last year, team 2523 had maybe 5 total students during our build season for the robot, out of those, perhaps 3 were able to input serious amounts of work into the robot. We had one programmer who input the basic code, and one teacher who could weld.

It took us working over 6 hours a day on the robot, every day (much more on weekends) and lots of stress, but if you hike up your pants and give it your all and never ever take "no" for an answer you can get it done. You'll be surprised what force of will can do.