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How about a poll on mentor or student designed? That means designed and CAD'ed up. I'd reckon that 99% of teams have their bots assembled by students, but I don't think that is saying much when the entire bot was drawn up by a few mentors with no more student input than "we want to score balls well".

Either way it is a team effort and who designs or builds the bot isn't of much concern at the competition. It is interesting to know though what involvement mentors have with some teams though so others can take note, emulate, or avoid. In the end it matters as to whether or not the student learns, not whether or not the student created. If the student learns more by a mentor CAD'ing up a fine robot compared to a maybe lesser student CAD'ed bot, then by all means it is much more beneficial for the mentor to play that role.

All that matters is that the students take something out of the program that they otherwise would not have. But I am curious as to student vs mentor designed and student vs mentor lead teams and how that relates to the teams level of success.