 The robotics program here is an after-school club that's open to school science and math students, student public school students, local home school kids. We have a six weeks build season so we get the design challenge and then we start day one, hit the ground running. We design the robot completely in CAD and then we will get the pieces cut, put them together, and then we have a final robot. So the students decided what our strategy was going to be this year. The students decided what robot would best fulfill that strategy. The students decided the schedule and what we would do if we missed the deadline. The trip to St. Louis, it was a lot of fun, really exciting, an entirely new experience unlike any of the other competitions we've ever been to. Teams come from all over the world to compete on a very high level. I often hear from parents that robotics is transforming their student. As a faculty advisor I get to witness this transformation. I get to see these students taking a leadership role. This experience has been like nothing else and it has taught me so much things that I could have never learned anywhere else. It really lets students apply what they learn in school into a truly real-world experience.