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Lot's of engineer buiilding

I have sort of a unique outlook on this subject, and I still don't have an official position. In 1999 I started an all student team at my high school. This was after three steady years of corporate sponsorship including 3-dimensional services, lear Corporation and General Motors Truck Group. My decision was based on team dynamics and an eagerness to try it on my own. It just so happened that we did extremely well that year, seeding six at nationals and placing 4th overall.......we lost to wildstang and technokats in the semis.
I went to college the next year, and we started a team. Now I was the engineer. I had a whole team of students, and I was still a "kid" myself. There were four college students including myself, all former firsters, and about ten high schoolers. The team has grown since then......we add new firsters every year when they get on campus.
The point here is this. Our robots are almost exclusively engineer designed and built, partly due to restrictions like working in a college machine shop where students aren't allowed, and long nights when students usually have class early. Mostly though this fact is due to lack of high schooler interest.
I grew up with first. It's a huge part of my life, and I feel that it will remain so for years. We've yet to get a steady group of students who share the fever. Many are too busy to dedicate the hours, and most are pulled in a dozen other directions already.......when the eager students arrive and want a hand in things, then they shall have all of the control they want. I try to excite them about it every year, so far with minimal success. The upper peninsula of michigan is far different than any other place in the world(from my perspective).
Until we get some guys and gals who want the first experience as much as we did, we'll build their ideas and hopefully produce a champion along the way!

Anthony Lapp
team 221 ------> now 857
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