I'll share some advice I've shared several other times, and that I need to take sometimes myself.
Sometimes we'll be far from reaching our goals. Reach out to others for help. Revisit and set attainable goals for where you're at now.
To me, some attainable goals will be:
- Attend competition with a legal frame and bumpers
- drive forward in autonomous past the baseline
- drive reliably - this means wiring is cleanly done to help with the inspection process
- You may be able to identify a couple of game tasks you can do with few(ish) resources. You can make a "gear-age" with 2x4 and plywood and some power tools. Will it be pretty? No, but it might work.
- Plan to spend the days between bag day and the summer to recruit another teacher or school administrator. Or work with a non-school entity that can take over ownership of the team. I do not know your funding, but there could be headaches in that process.
If you can work with a local team, you may be able to complete and test some of those items. Definitely find a local team with experience to make sure that your robot is legal to reduce the amount of time it takes to get through inspection. If you can even drive around on the field on practice day, you'll be able to be ahead of some other teams in my experience.