The Goals of FIRST

[KenWittlief]

BTW - building the robot itself should only take about 2 weeks of the 6 week program

first you must figure out what needs to be done to win the game

then you need to figure out what you are going to build

then you can build it.

if you do the first 2 steps in 2 hours, then spend 5.9 weeks building, what you are doing is not engineering.

in the real world, bolting, cutting, wiring, and screwing a machine together is something you get a technician to do -

all the magic in science and engineering happens between your ears.