Every engineer, every project almost always never works on the first try, but that’s not a problem. That is the process - countless prototypes until a working product. Innovators Club gives students the time, knowledge, and pieces they need to design, break, figure, and create things to improve a creation. It doesn’t matter how fast it works or well it works. The process and the knowledge to get to the finishing product is the most important part of engineering.
Design it, build the first version, no matter how rough.
Run it. Fly it. Load it. Find out what actually happens.
Something breaks, snaps, or doesn't fit. Expected, not a setback.
Figure out exactly why it failed, not just that it did.
Fix that one thing. Loop back to 01. Repeat until it holds.