Lettermans
 

My team is a 2nd year team and I am trying to establish a Letterman system for our team. I have notified the counselors about what I am trying to do and they said it would be cool. They asked me it would be helpful if I could have a list of teams/schools that already have a Letterman system in place. It would take forever to go through each team's website hoping to find something about it. So if any team out there has one in place, it would be helpful if you could provide your team number, school, and location. Thanks!

Team 4701
Team W.I.R.E. (Warriors in Robotics Education)

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Here are a couple recent ish threads about it

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...botics+letters
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...botics+letters

There are a ton more, just search for "robotics letters" with the search function

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Thanks! I got too excited hearing that we could possibly have it that I didn't think about searching it. I'll look into it.

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Are team does it by having so many hour and going to one of the days at cow-town and one of the days at the regional for the letter. Along with being to as many activities with the team as they can.

Team 2345 Animal Control
Kearney High School
Kearney, MO

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As you requested, our team number, school, and location: Team 230, Shelton High School, Shelton, CT.

Our students have been receiving varsity letters for at least 9 years (possibly more). The criteria is to be an active team member for 2 years. Although "active" is somewhat subjective, it is basically coming to at least 1/2 the work sessions and attending at least one regional (that would be our home regional in CT).

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Team: 2137
School: Oxford High School
Location: Oxford, MI

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Thanks! It really helps. What exactly do you guys use for your patch? My counselor was having a tough time finding a "robotics" patch.

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Team: 279 (Tech Fusion)
School: Toledo Technology Academy
Location: Toledo, Ohio

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Our patch is the Oxford "O" with the FIRST symbol stitched in at the bottom. Our patch

Link to our requirements for a letter


Below are contacts that Team 2137 - TORC used when we were developing and purchasing the Varsity Letters and patches.

Company TORC purchases from: http://www.plaquesandsuch.com/

Contacts:
Max max11566@aol.com
Paul Braun pbraun@plaquesandsuch.com

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I'm going to push for this tomorrow. I pretty much know what I'm going to hear from our coach/teacher rep. but still I'm going to try. I think this idea is awesome and have never thought of it. Thanks for bringing it up xmaskid

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Our patch is the standard Varsity letter for our school which is an S and then students are given pins for each sport and bars for every year on the team. Our robotics pin is our team logo (the claw logo with Gaelhawks written across). I can try get a picture of that if you want.

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Team: 1939 (Kuh-nig-its)
School: The Barstow School
Location: Kansas City, Missouri

We have a system based off of the number of productive hours spent on robotics during build season. The sign in/out sheet is publicly viewable as to let us police ourselves about how much time was actually spent working. The requirements are 40 hours to go to out of town competition and 80 hours for a letter. Considering how much work goes into build season, if you are there most of the time and working, you letter.

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MamaSpoldi, Do you know the reasoning behind requiring a student to be an active team member for 2 years to earn a Letter? In any other sport or activity (football, track, band, choir, robotics, etc) at all the schools I'm aware of, a varsity letter could be earned in the very first year of participation if the other defined requirements were met.

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Are patch is a large yellow and purple K for the school, with robotics down the stem of the K.
Kearney MO
Team 2345
Kearney high school

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Some info here: http://www.firstnemo.org/PDF/varsity-lettering.pdf

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AST Sports is a great place to get patches for Letter winners. They are great and everything they do is done right in the back of their shop.

If you are in the area (Monticello, MN) they will even give you a tour of the shop - pretty amazing to see all the gear for schools and organizations from all over the country!

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Thanks everyone! It really helps getting all of these ideas. I was talking with a teammate and we were thinking of having a 50 hr work requirement, 3.0 GPA, attend the competition, 10 hrs of community service (with or without the team), participate in the FLL tournament we volunteer at. I'm not too sure about adding a fundraising requirement right now because our mentor stressed it's not our job to do it yet, but I do see it being a factor for the team later on in its years.

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Great job! I just got done finishing this for our team this past year.

Team 4004: MARS Rovers

North Muskegon HS, Muskegon, MI

we have four schools and the other three are currently working out the filing with us.

GOOD LUCK!

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Our students qualify for a letter if they get 100 hours in during build season. And this year, we have a snazzy new pin for them...

https://www.facebook.com/pages/FIRST...type=1&theater

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Love the pin.

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Our Team started Letterman this year. We have several catagories the students must fulfill to earn their Letter. Out of 64 members - this year 24 earned their Letter. The Letter is really nice - a big S for Southington High School with a gold FIRST symbol on it.
We are Team 195 - Cyber Knights from Southington, CT

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Cyber Blue started this year, and our first "lettering" students will receive them at our banquet this week.

The team is considered an academic team at the school, so it is an academic letter for Robotics. Students can buy an academic jacket and put it on there.

Basic requirements are 2 years team membership, attendance percentage, mandatory meeting attendance (kick-off, open house), meet all team membership requirements, competition attendance and a GPA requirement.

We went with 2 years to be consistent with most other lettering requirements in the school.

Since this is the first year, we "grandfathered" seniors who would have qualified with the 2 year requirement svn though we just started this year.

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For Team 60 our requirements to letter are identical to our requirements to travel:
60 Shop Hours
60 Hours at the Shop during Build Season
20 Hours of Community Service
A "C" or higher in all Classes
3 Business Presentations
$400 of Arizona State Tax Credits

Being a Community Team, the jackets will have the school's letter (Mine is a K for Kingman High School) as well as having Robotics sewn in to the letter or an FRC patch on a shoulder.

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I know Team 2340, Xcentrics in Rochester, NY, has a Varsity Letter system. They actually posted a picture to their Facebook today of their students receiving their letters.

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Team 45 The TechnoKats, Kokomo High School, Kokomo, Indiana

This is the first year we were able to receive letters. It was years in the making, but just in time for my senior year. we were able to get them.

Requirements include: Being an active member of the team for 2 years, staying above a C- in all classes to travel, going to at least 3 competitions each year (including off season), going to at least half the required shop sessions during build season, and leading a main sub-group of the team or leading 2 minor projects.

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A lot (maybe most?) teams in MN have a lettering system now. There's even an official letter patch provided by the State High School League for Robotics - the recognition from the High School League really is huge for us!