Percentage of Work Done by Students.

[KillerCows456]

We are 100% Student built, we had no help from any one.
except the closest thing to an engineer we had was the auto shop teacher and we used his help in the machine shop. He was the supervisor that we used in order for us to use the power tools.

[Koko Ed]

This is such a tiresome subject.
I know teams that have all the work done by students and I know teams that have work done by the mentors and I know teams that split it up evenly. So many teams do these things so many dfferent ways and they can still be awesome right?
Last weekend at FLR there was a situation where a veteran team was openly disrespected by another tema because of this. I would never openly judge a team because of who builds the robot and to shun them is just insane.
I don't know the exact percentage on our team ( about 50/50 far as I know)but basically we just have people work on the bot to get it done and not obsess over who did what because we all have to get the robot finished so we all are going to work towards that goal. If anyone has issue with us because of how we work on the robot that is their issue, not ours.

[Jack Jones]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Koko Ed again.

Ed - you are a beacon.

[team1611]

100% designed by the students. all of the work done by students except for the welding and a very small amount of machine work.

[AcesPease]

I don't have any percentages, but the amount of student design, build and maintenance on our robots has increased dramatically since 2002. We also get a lot of help from mentors. Our lead engineering mentor (Woodie Flowers winner Dave Leenhouts) insists on a fairly complete design cycle: Brainstorming, testing ideas with prototypes, designing the parts using Autodesk, making the parts and assembling the robot. During this process there is a lot of interaction between students, engineers and machinists. That interaction is what I see as inspiring our students the most. Teaching students about interacting with adults before they graduate is one of the most surprising benefits of the FIRST program.

BTW Students have all but taken over the management of our team activities