Building just isn't a priority anymore

[Hawiian Cadder]

I wish our team had the team spirit you describe. At our competitions the scouting forms are perfect, almost everyone in the stands with more than 1 year of dedicated work goes in the pits for a bit. But our team doesn't feel as much like a Team so much as a couple different groups of people sort of working together.

While you are on the opposite end of the spectrum, I don't think that is too big of an issue. I would design a prototyping project that is also VERY spirit orientated, in an attempt to overlap the two main areas of your team and do both well. An example of this would be when teams incorporate designs into their sheet metal lighting patterns.