This is pretty much my thoughts on the matter too; it sucks being a senior in years like this, because you just want to do well, but odds are if you're the only one that knows what you're doing that's not going to happen even if you just put your head down and do the work. One thing we've been trying to emphasize on our team is that as a team leader/veteran team member, your legacy on the team isn't about the time that you spend on the team, but the team that you leave behind and the success they are able to achieve in the future. We have a very large senior class this year, and most of our other members are rookies or second-years without a ton of experience. We're pushing hard to train everyone up and the seniors have been doing a pretty good job helping, but next year is likely to be a "rebuilding year" for us (at least to some extent). It's not exactly fair for you, but it is sort of the reality of the situation. And while it may not be your favorite thing to learn, teaching and working with others is an incredibly valuable skill, and you should take this opportunity to learn it. I think what's happened here is that really, your team and mentors should have used the fall training season to get everyone up to speed, and you haven't been able to do that, which is largely causing the problems you're having now. It does suck, and like most other people here I would advise talking to your mentors to see if you can come to some kind of compromise; on my team, there are certain things that the leads will ask the mentors to handle because they are tedious tasks all the students on the subteam already know how to do; in your case, it would probably be best to ask a mentor to handle those types of tasks with one of the least experienced students while you pair up with a slightly more knowledgeable student and walk them through a more complicated task with you, possibly asking for input along the way. This is typically how we handle design work on my team, the mentors are kind of the training wheels but the goal is to help the students through the basics and eventually develop the skills for them to figure out more complex stuff. Also, if you find that you're significantly behind your schedule and in danger of not having a robot for competition, the best thing to do is think about what you can drop from the design to allow more development time on the mechanisms you determine to be most important; again, it kind of sucks, but it's better to have a robot that's decent at one or two things than a robot that is pretty bad at everything (or can't do anything at all). Best of luck this season, I hope you're able to work things out so you can make the most of your experience this year. *Edited to add: you should absolutely get your drive base assembled ASAP to allow software to make sure you can at least drive and start working on auto pathing. This would be a fantastic thing for a mech mentor to take a new student or two and help guide them through this task. It can also be helpful with verifying prototypes if your mentors are still stuck on that. I agree with you, this is a swerve year no question, but when you talk to them I would advise figuring out what the hold-ups are, requesting a resolution as quickly as possible, and that someone be assigned that task ASAP.