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Pin Man
30-03-2003, 20:39
Just as a question... I wanted to see how big other teams are... How many students are on your team??? We have around 40-45...
Harrison
30-03-2003, 21:21
35 Max
IsabelRinging
30-03-2003, 22:15
60ish.
Pin Man
30-03-2003, 22:17
60 eh? Thats a lot of students... traveling must be hard... we have a hard enough time...
Alaina
30-03-2003, 22:19
About 10...5 of which actually spent a significant amount of time at meetings working on Spicy.
Dave_222
30-03-2003, 22:55
About 27.
Melissa H.
30-03-2003, 23:03
*cry* We only have 10...:( ...but we have as much fun as possible to make up for the lack of team members:D
HolyMasamune
31-03-2003, 02:10
useful team members or total team members?
if it's total, then we have around 20-25, if it's just team members that actually contribute to the team, then 10-15
KatieBKitten
31-03-2003, 10:44
We have about 30, give or take. Some people don't do anything though so really only about 20 who help the team
Pin Man
31-03-2003, 17:08
Actually yo can tell me both.... Useful and total
Hailfire
31-03-2003, 18:18
Originally posted by IsabelRinging
60ish.

60!?!?!? Imagine all of the people running around. How many people on your team actually do work?
Pin Man
31-03-2003, 18:58
yeah.. 60 kids... how many contribute???
IsabelRinging
31-03-2003, 21:04
Originally posted by Pin Man
yeah.. 60 kids... how many contribute???

Well, all of them are useful to some extent. Obviously with 60 people, sometimes there are just too many that end up doing nothing. It's not so much that they're lazy (we don't allow them to be lazy for any significant amount of time), it's just that there's only so much to do.

Our mentors have made a great effort to divide up jobs though. We've got subteams for Pit/Fabrication, Software, Electrical, Intel, Website, Animation, Awards, Spirit, Photography... I'm sure I'm missing some, but you get the idea. We're pretty organized, and I think we've made ourselves about as efficient as we can be with so many people.

As for traveling, the students have to pass three tests in order to travel: one on the history on our team and of FIRST, one on the rules of this year's game, and one about this year's robot. Our grades are checked before regionals and nationals... we all have to keep a 2.5 cumulative GPA without D's in any of our classes.

Yup, I think I've covered it all.
Koko Ed
01-04-2003, 12:36
20 girls
14 boys
34 kids total.
utishpenguin
01-04-2003, 22:09
75 paid members
Melissa H.
01-04-2003, 22:14
Actually, now that I think about it, with Rochester United...we have um...50ish attending Nationals...although it's 3 teams put together...
Matt Attallah
01-04-2003, 22:43
We got about 15 kids and about 20 total for the team...
utishpenguin
02-04-2003, 02:24
i think only 20 or something people worked really out of 70
Pin Man
02-04-2003, 17:17
I don't like the slackers
Hailfire
02-04-2003, 17:34
Well for us, since our team is so small this year, everyone has to do something. At least 3 jobs. Some people did more jobs, some people did less. Next year we hope to have a total of 20 people or more. Luckily, I already have 6 people interested in joining next year.
Alaina
02-04-2003, 18:51
Originally posted by Pin Man
I don't like the slackers That's what I like about small teams. There are no slackers, everyone works.
Frank(Aflak)
02-04-2003, 18:53
less than 10.
Pin Man
02-04-2003, 21:18
yeah... but my team is 50 kids... i try to get everyone involved...
utishpenguin
02-04-2003, 21:32
Originally posted by Pin Man
yeah... but my team is 50 kids... i try to get everyone involved...

how? just curious... i need to learn
utishpenguin
02-04-2003, 21:34
Originally posted by Pin Man
yeah... but my team is 50 kids... i try to get everyone involved...


what methods do you use? i need to learn... some kids are too timid
Pin Man
02-04-2003, 21:44
well theres alot of different ways... just like make it interesting but make it so the learn too... be open to what you are doing...
Hailfire
02-04-2003, 21:47
Just put it this way, by doing stuff that you don't know how to do, you learn how to do it and you'll never know. Maybe, in the future, those skills may come in handy. So in other words, you're actually helping yourself for future purposes. That's how I look at it.