I'm part of NSBE (National Society for Black Engineers), one of the members of the senior Robotics team. My friend and I are both new to NSBE this year, and both have been working on the robot competition for a while, along with 2 other members, sometimes. The competition is in March, and I get a cheap trip down to Orlando, Florida to compete. What I just found out today is that the robot we've been working with is the wrong one. We've been using LEGO Mindstorms kit, and I guess we're either going to use the more complicated LEGO robotics kit, or something new altogether. So we have just over a month to figure out this new kit.
Also, when I said that the team consisted of 3 friends and myself, that's a little misleading. There should be a team of 6. That's what we started at. Then our president booted one of the members because they never came to meetings. Then one of the people has only shown up to maybe 3 meetings (which have been going on since October). Basically, it's been sporadic appearances of 3 members, mostly consistant of one, and then my friend and I have been to all of them. And this whole thing causes a problem, as the competition is a mandatory 6 member team.