first year team needs help

[Air Soarer]

Hello. This is the first year my school has participated in the FIRST competition. I go to a small school, so participation is very limited. Also add on the fact the there are only 3 seniors(me being one), and we're the only ones who have any... skill, work ethic, or education in engineering. To put it bluntly, we're extremely far behind. The other two seniors are working on the programming/electronics, and are making decent progress. I'm the head of hardware, as I'm really the only other competent student. The engineers at our sponsor have been very helpful in getting things built, however designing things is our fatal flaw.

I'm asking if anyone had some suggestions for a very easy strategy that we might be able to pull off. As of right now, we have nothing. Building complex things is going to be virtually impossible, so please keep it simple. I have no experience in the competition, so I don't know what works and what doesn't. Thanks in advance.