[JesseK]

Ours is built by both students and adults, and we're not afraid to say it plainly. Ideas come from anywhere (including 7 year olds...), but the students and adults design it, cut metal, etc. The only thing that's been done in the past by one or the other is CAD, but that's only because we've had discontinuity in who on our team knows CAD.

Our stance is that adults stand to gain just as much from FIRST as the students do. Just look at how many mentors we keep losing due to robotics-driven promotions at work, acceptance into CMU's Doctoral robotics program or other graduate-level programs, and other general "I'm moving on to do better things because of what this robotics program has done for me" type of things.