Percentage of Work Done by Students.

[Daniel Morse]

Team 213 was built mechanically 85% by the students with only advising input from the engineers. I was one of the primary Inventor designers on the team, and I took a part devised from the brainstorming, formed a core group of students and started to work. We had a small amount of assistance from one engineer in the form of constructive feedback and a sounding board, but for the most part, I did most of the designing myself. The only team with more professional support was the drive train. The programming was a collaborative (50/50) effort between the engineers and the students. In previous years, we have much more engineer domination of the construction, but the last two years have been much more student oriented. I very much enjoy having this sort of setup, because when I look at the robot, I see our students as much as our engineers in the machine.