Hello Mark,
We got the parts from FIRST, we bought the kit from them, it is like almost the same experience as the students get, the only difference, it comes thru our "receiving" dock, them get lost on the process somewhere in our incoming stagin area and them we cannot move the kit ourselves because we are "Engineers" and that aint' in our job description.....
We built the robot thru July until September. And them we begin gearing up for the season, we have membership meetings of our club with the following topics :
September - FLL/FTC Mentor Request
October - FRC Mentor Request / Applying for Grant
November - FIRST Regional Competition Volunteer Request
We are not sure about December yet.......