Real victory comes from knowing you did your best. (also Best Manufacturing Award doesn't hurt).

We had a great run at the competition. Corey did the driving and ran through two rounds flawlessly. Our machine operated exactly as we wanted. Unfortunately, this was also our down fall. During our testing phase we identified a weakness that we had failed to plan for: dropping one or our  own wheels into our own hole. We designed our machine to be fast and therefore sacrificed torque using our chosen gear ratio. This worked well until we didn't have enough power to get out of our own hole when we fell in.

As you can see in these photos from the competition our vehicle turned out to be very true to our initial design. Thanks to the tireless work of our team and help from the ME 250 Staff we did walk away with the " Best Manufacturing Award"! (And what is victory anyway if you don't have the best manufacturing award?)

If we could do it all over again we would have identified our one small oversight early on. However, doing so would have absolutely guaranteed our victory thereby making the competition completely unfair for the other teams. So, your welcome other teams, we won't be so kind in ME 350....

From left to right: Josh, Corey, Adam, Bob and Davor. *Not pictured: Nassim, though not there in person, he was there in our hearts.

We had them running scared until... Never mind, just remember the "we had them running scared" part.

Our final design before manufacturing. Nailed it.