[Tetraman]

174 will have a massive turnover. The drivers from the past three years are graduating as well as many of the most productive students. The way 174 changes this, is to start the team early and do lots of minuature projects with the machine equipment and processes.

It also helps to have lots of mentors who take on students to learn the systems of processes with very hands-on tasks, such as tuning up the last year's robot and tearing it apart. Some mentors like our code expert, will spend hours and hours both off season and on season with students, and make sure each student knows what they need to know like the back of their hand.

It's all about teaching early and making sure you emerse the students in the program. It's also a good way to make sure the students stay in the robotics team year after year, by making it part of their life. (in a good way, of couse.)