How many high schools are involved in your team?

[IMDWalrus]

In this thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22843), Not2B mentioned that his team is made up of students from four different high schools.

My team is made up of four high schools (Warren Mott, Cousino, Sterling Heights, and MMSTC, aka the Math Science Center), but they're all in the same district (Warren Consolidated).

How common are FIRST teams with multiple high schools involved? When looking at multiple-school teams, how often are the schools involved from different districts?

(Admittedly, this isn't really important...but I'm curious. :D)

[kristinL356]

Well my team has students from Parkview, Central, Pulaski Academy, North Little Rock, McClellan, in the past Robinson but not this year. That's 5 high schools from 3 districts plus a private school. We also have 2 colleges involved.

[Beth Sweet]

There are technically 3 high schools on our team, but there are really only 2 that participate. THe last one is our "alternative high school" that basically only is used by the pregnant girls and the juvi kids.

[Pat Fairbank]

We, at 296, are a single-school team, though a small one. I too am curious about multiple-school teams. I would think that it would be very complicated due to transportation issues to have team meetings, build sessions, etc if the team members are scattered all around (but I live in a big city, so what do I know).

[KevinB]

Our team is just one high school, however we're the only high school in our district (and within a twenty mile radius!).

[Yan Wang]

Our team contains members only from our high school. However, there are other high schools nearby (within 20 miles).

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally posted by IMDWalrus
My team is made up of four high schools (Warren Mott, Cousino, Sterling Heights, and MMSTC, aka the Math Science Center), but they're all in the same district (Warren Consolidated).

How common are FIRST teams with multiple high schools involved? When looking at multiple-school teams, how often are the schools involved from different districts?


We have two rival schools from two different school districts on one robotics' team. We had members from Palisades High School in Palos Verdes last year cuz they don't have their own team. We have a few jr hi and elementary kids.

Both districts are very involved.

[J Flex 188]

palisades hs? woooow.. my cousin goes there =) thats pretty cool, and 188 is doing an exchange with 22, so we are going to attend the socal regional in 2005 barring any kind of travel restriction or whatever

but back to the topic at hand. it seems to me that the vast vasty majority of Canadian teams are from one school only. from the TDSB alone, (toronto board) we probably have around 40-60 teams (most rookies this year) that function on their own =). which is kind of funny when you think about it, because the average population of a high school here is about the size of a middle school in CA (or so my cousin tells me..hehe) but yeah, as far as i know, there may only be a couple of multi school teams. 188 is all woburn people.. etc etc.

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally posted by J Flex 188
and 188 is doing an exchange with 22, so we are going to attend the socal regional in 2005 barring any kind of travel restriction or whatever


I heard about that! We're considering beginning to do something like that.

[SaxMan701]

I got all of you beat at 5 schools. Waverly, Athens, Troy, Towanda, and NorthEast Bradford. Yes, they are all different districts. Waverly, Athens, Troy, and NorthEast Bradford are all about 30 minutes from Towanda (that's where most meetings are held).

Oh, and you can also say we cover two counties...and, come to think of it, two states (Waverly is in NY, the rest are in PA).

[Melissa Nute]

1 officially but we have students from 2 other high schools involved on the team

[Carol]

MOE has you all beat. It varies, but last year we had 14 different schools represented from 3 different states, including one home-schooled.

[Allison K]

226 has two high schools from the same district (robotics is one of the two things they combined on, rivals for everything else).

1313 we technically only have one high school, but we also have homeschoolers. We considered adding another, but they are having issues with teacher strikes and contracts and stuff and working with that district was too much work. We may add more next year.

Allison

[Greg Young]

We have students from two high schools in the same district. The district opened a new high school last year to reduce crowding and the students on the team got split between the two schools. The team meets at the old high school where we already had space. It works well because the schools are only about 5 miles apart.

Last year I had a child in each high school because they left the seniors at the old school. Two marching bands, two choruses, too much! I attended two marching band competitions on one day, one twenty miles west of home, the other thirty miles east. I managed (barely) to see both bands perform. If I had been on two FIRST teams I would have become schizophrenic.

[Elyse Holguin]

team hammond has all four public high schools in hammond (gavit high, hammond high, morton high, and clark high) on it, but we are still pretty small- we only have between 20- 30 people on the team each year.

[Ashley Weed]

Originally posted by SaxMan701
I got all of you beat at 5 schools. Waverly, Athens, Troy, Towanda, and NorthEast Bradford. Yes, they are all different districts. Waverly, Athens, Troy, and NorthEast Bradford are all about 30 minutes from Towanda (that's where most meetings are held).

Oh, and you can also say we cover two counties...and, come to think of it, two states (Waverly is in NY, the rest are in PA).

LOL... and to add more confusion... at times Wyalusing and Sayre School Districts have been involved. Plus word is Canton School District will be goining this coming year. In addition to, a home-school that is involved with the team.

[Rpifirst]

Lat year we had a total of five high schools contribute to team 190. The majority fo them were from Mass. Academy. But every year we get help from Doherty highschool. That year however three other high schools decided to help out. One person of which wound up on our travel team.

[BandChick]

we're a one high school team, but that's not a problem, at least, i don't see it as a problem. we're not a large team, and i'm quite happy with the outcome we DO have from our school :)

[Rick]

im proud to say that 121 is now a 3 high school team featuring students from 4 towns!

[IMDWalrus]

Originally posted by Pat Fairbank
I would think that it would be very complicated due to transportation issues to have team meetings, build sessions, etc if the team members are scattered all around (but I live in a big city, so what do I know).
At times, it can be. Most of our meetings are at one of two schools (one that's centrally located for the bussing, the other being home to our work areas). A third school is used for gathering before travel, as it's a bit closer to most of our homes.

Basically, the district busses us where we need to go. It works...but it's confusing.

[J Flex 188]

=) that would be pretty cool to pull off.. can maybe make it an annual exercise or something, with different teams from CA and ONT exchanging each year!

Originally posted by Redhead Jokes
I heard about that! We're considering beginning to do something like that.

[Rickertsen2]

Our team consists of only 1 team, although there are many teams in our city.

[Aignam]

Our team, though there are a few students who come from different schools, primarily consists of students from only one high school.

[Sachiel7]

Well, we're mostly homeschool students, but we have 3 public schoolers this year all from different schools. Does that jump us up to a 4-school team? :D
Heh, one member probably doesn't count as highly. But hey, you gotta start somewhere...

[Jon K.]

RAGE has 5 schools involved with our team. This year we have over 35 students which is the most I believe we have ever had.

[cab2137]

My team has two high schools as well and it works pretty well but we have to drive over to the other school our self because there is no bus between the schools but it cool haveing to schools because it get a lot more help and we are the districts team not the schools

[Arefin Bari]

2 schools... Dillard and taravella....

[Katie Reynolds]

MOE has you all beat. It varies, but last year we had 14 different schools represented from 3 different states, including one home-schooled.
Wow. :yikes:

93 is made up of students from four different high schools - Appleton North, Appleton East, Appleton West and Neenah High School.

[Ricky Q.]

Oconomowoc would be 1 high school, but our district is huge. So about 100 sq. miles with kids from 3 different WI counties.

[Elgin Clock]

1 SCHOOL!!

And do you know why???

Because our very uninformed and un-openminded BOE has resrictions on our team, going against the whole principal of the expansion of FIRST!!

In the past we had team members from 2 other schools, but were told that they were to be "grandfathered" into our team, and then no other students from those schools would be allowed to join our team.

Now what gets me is, the kids we had on our team from the other schools lived in the same town as the kids in our "main" HS (they went to a trade school, and one went to a parochial school in another town) but the funny thing is - their parents still pay taxes in our town and they are entitled to the same rights that the kids in our town that go to the "main" school are they not??

Now the funny thing is this year, we have a kid on our team who used to go to one of those other schools last year, but basically "came back" to the "main" school just to be part of the team... How sad and/or great is that??

He was forced to go to this HS just because he wanted to be on our team..

What do you think of this?? Have any on of your school districts pulled this kind of garbage on you??

(And let's not even go into the fact that because we are a "non-profit" non-school sanctioned team - re: not school funded, that we have to pay and extra (large) fee to use the school if we want to use it on the weekends... But I'll leave that for another thread..)

[Alavinus]

We had 10 high schools involved at once on #339. Now it is down to about 5 or so. The way we did it was to meet at a central location (actually, an unused school building) and there we designed and built our robot. Our marketing team would alternate between the different counties every other week.

[Arefin Bari]

We had 10 high schools involved at once on #339. Now it is down to about 5 or so. The way we did it was to meet at a central location (actually, an unused school building) and there we designed and built our robot. Our marketing team would alternate between the different counties every other week.

thats a lot of schools... just wondering... how many members did you guys have that year??? :ahh: