Busy, that's where. The year's been a whirlwind of activity centered around FIRST. The team grew by a lot this past September, and that took me quite by surprise; we really were not ready for that number of people to show up.
With all the new students came a bunch of energizing parents and of them all there were three who really stepped up during build. I really don't think we could have gotten thru the season without their help.
That's not to say that everything went according to plan; quite the opposite as it played out. While gaining three mentors, we lost two, one went to the west coast to a new job, the other just walked away, and that really damaged our prospects for success this season. So, being left in the lurch and the only one with an extensive history, I was left to try to keep things moving along as best as I could. When the two MEs who were present for the training sessions didn't show as often as I would have liked, the mechanical designers were left to their own devices, which was a really bad decision to have made.
Anyway, this season's robot was less than superb, although it did manage to support the agreed upon strategy, albeit, poorly. The past several weeks since GSR have been spent redesigning the ball control mechanism, kicker and hook deployment scheme in preparation for Atlanta.
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