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Aidan and Nathan are required for trailer driving. The trailer will be very helpful for us at competition because we can bring basically the entire bay. Aidan is a strong all arounder and also ardupilot support. Four people on ardupilot might be excessive but it seems reasonable considering that will be a big challenge for us. Daniel, Evan, Nathaniel, Tong, and Smile have confirmed in discord they are not comfortable driving trailers and/or have never driven with a trailer before. Taking the trailer is required as supported by Anni and Alison because it’s the “easiest way to make sure we have all the things we need and otherwise finding stuff at comp is a nightmare + jamming all the people and stuff into cars would be terrible”. Anni has informed us that learning to drive trailer is ok, Daniel and Smile should be able to figure it out. We will need trailer for comp to bring a bunch of stuff. Actually oing the trainning is mostly just asking SDC admins politelyand should be doable easily.
Smile never been to comp, strongest mech we have available. Same arguement for Evan, strong mech up and coming. We just don’t have space for a second mech. Autonomy needs at least one person. Smile has been on the team for longer than Evan so it makes sense for him to have priority. Smile and Nathan will be only mech focused people at comp which is a risk if significant repairs are needed. Evan is very much a strong pick and it would be extremely beneficially if we could take a ninth person.
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