How many teams are 100% student built

[Cody Carey]

My first post was vague at best so here is an elaboration.

A quick rundown of workloads:

- Students do 100% of the in-house machining ( lathe, mill, etc).
- Students do 100% of the CADing.
- Students do 80% of the proof-of-concept prototyping
- Students do the programming.
- Students do the scouting and AV work.
- Mentors do 20% of the proof-of-concept prototyping
- Mentors teach us how to use machines.
- Mentors help with concept design.
- Mentors teach us the advanced stress calculations.
- Mentors take care of (most) budget work.
- Laser and EDM work is sent out of house.


As you can see, we students do most of the designing and building for the finished robot, but we take help when it is offered. In past years, we've tried doing it without design/technical input from the mentors, but that didn't really yield professional (or working) robots. We have to draw on our mentors because they have years of experience in the things that we want to learn. Once again, without the mentors, you wouldn't have a complete team. For the record book; we have four non-engineering mentors, and one engineer.


-Cody