Team Size
 

Just a question... I'm curious

How many students are on your team?

What is the largest FIRST team you know of?

Thanks!

Lets see.... a bare minimum of 3 and a max of around 10 this year. Pathetic, isnt it.

We limit at 36, and usually have 30 go to competitions (usually 6 can't go or something). The largest team I can think of would be SPAM, I think they have 80+ people when they form their team each year, but I'm not sure if they're the largest.

team size
 

my smallest team--15
my largest team--35

every team is different, team dynamics are unique to each team

ts

The Wheeler High School team (Team 1002) has ~70 students active this year. Not all are on the build team though. Others are in charge of outreach, FLL, sponsor, PR etc.

I think my team has 30 or so people. Robotics is offered as a class during the school day or and after school class. We are a year round team. Only 20 or so people go to compititions.

We have about 40, plus a handful from our local tech center....


the largest team, by far, is MOE. They are literally the entire state of delaware- over 300 strong at regionals, its a green sea over there.. Their dedication is insane too, i've heard of people driving 2 hours everyday just to get to meetings- keep up your good work MOE

my team this year has around 25 students, but that number will drop to probably around 15 or 20 because those who are not so dedicated will drop out ... and in all honesty i will not complain because even though i want to spread FIRST, i think that those not dedicated enough will not be beneficial to us ...

as far as the largest team i know of goes .. last year emery college (team 1219) had there whole school involved, and this year they created two teams (one all-girls team and one all-guys team) ... i may be wrong on this fact ... but i know for sure that there whole or most of there school attended the canadian regional... talk about FIRST fully integrated in a school!!

last year 1089 was approximately 13. 12 guys and one girl (me).

this year, we have at least 20 that i know of, and 5 or so girls (yes, the fact that i am no longer the only girl disappoints me and excites me)

hopefully we'll get a little bit bigger, but not much. i liked the small family feel we had last season :)

Technokats
 

I noticed a common pattern during my 4 years as a TechnoKat student. In the fall the numbers on paper would reach the 50s. During the fall you would see most of these students a few times or all of the time. Then when it gets down to the nitty gritty around January (starting about the time of our city ball drop), the number had decreased by somewhere around 25. Happened every year.

Re: Technokats
 

And that is not enough, in my opinion. We are shooting for 40 active students. With all of the different team aspects that FIRST challenges us to do, it is possible.

15 robot
6-8 animation
3-4 publicity, etc.
3-4 marketing, event organizing, etc.
10 stragglers who are not too involved but just enough to be on the team... 'cause they are busy or young... budding to be more active.

Andy

I think my current team (#639) has about 30 students... We've grown more or less linearly from about 10 people since our first year. Also, I would say only about half are active each year. Further, I would say most of returning members who were NOT active the previous year make a lot of effort to be involved and helpful the next year.

Now, as for the largest team I know of, I know my team way back when I was in high school (#190) has had a ton of people in certain years. They tend to involve pretty much all of the Juniors on the FIRST team at some level... I think it might have been integrated into the curriculum since I was there. so that's 50 students right there. They actually require all Juniors to go to the New England regional :) And then add to that the number of seniors that do FIRST for a second year. Also, there are college students at WPI that want to help out. I remember hearing that 120 college students had signed up for the team one year! Of course, only a small fraction of the college students can actually be useful, so I imagine the number must have shrunk to 10 or 20 at most. I am sure I've heard of larger teams... I just can't think of who they are.

I think the optimal number of students is a function of the resources available. If a large number of mentors are available AND a very good team structure exists, then a lot more students can participate and actually get something out of the program. If limited mentors or limited organization exists, a smaller number of students is the way to go. Typically, if there is room for involvement in the team, the students will come. If there is too many students and nobody can give them something to do, the students will go.... often with a time delay of about a year.

- Patrick

As of now, we have eight students- all boys.

But we seem to be getting more each meeting. I've been trying to get them to bring girls, especially now that we are getting our edubot and will have engineering stuff to do instead of just fundraising stuff. Makes it more fun.

Hear that guys- BRING GIRLS

Allison

25 students.

I think Robodox has 70 or 80. They have robotics class, and the team's a requirement.

We find the team functions best with a maxiumum of 40 students. Otherwise the kids will end up with nothing to do.

Our team begins each year with about 50 kids right after the school 'Clubfest'. This withers down rather quickly to about 35, and this number usually drops to about 20-30 active members.

We have 29. Surprisingly we have 12 girls. Which is pretty high I think

Generally, we start the season with around 20, and have somewhere around 15 by the time regionals come around. Looks like it'll be about the same this year.

MOE Team Size
 

I'd like to correct OneAngryDaisy (great job at Ramp Riot this past weekend!).

The MOE team (Team #365) consists of about 35-40 students, a bunch of team mentors, and parents, and our groupies. We have many groupies, and encourage them to buy a MOE green and black jersey if they attend an official event. I'm sure this gives the impression that we are everywhere (sometimes we use the phrase that "we spread like a virus").

Another misconception is that we include the whole state of Delaware. While they may seem true, Delaware residents actually number more than 300 people (amazed looks!). Now, granted, Delaware is not a large state and you can cross it width-wise in about 20 minutes (faster is not encouraged) when there is little or no traffic on I-95, but some in the state have not met one of our MOEbots and few (very few) have not heard the sound of our MOEStix.

This year, we would like to welcome another Delaware team!!!!! Middletown HS (not sure of the team #, up around 1370).

Bottom line - 35-40 student team members, not all of Delaware.

Nuff said.

Team 814 this year consists of about 15 students, 5 of them veterans. We have one teacher advisor, and an engineer that pops in an out during build season. I enjoy being on a smaller team.

As for large teams, though, I haven't really counted. I just see big teams. Monta Vista (115) is a rather large team, if I remember correctly.


PS: Just some random thing I find interesting....females used to take up about 1/10th of the team (oh! oh! that was me!!). Now females take up 1/3 of the team. That makes me happy. =)

We normally have a team of about 10 to 20 students. We found out that the bigger the team, the less work there is to go around.

Team Size
 

I must post a correction:

Robo-Dox (599) has about 50 students.

The number is too many, but I can't seem to turn people away.

-Mr. Van
Coach, 599

Since Brian didn't say how many our team has, I guess I will.

Our website has 78 students registered. On an actual meeting we get about 50 each week.

smallest : 15 Students

Largest: 61 students

Actually, 639 has a maximum of 25 members a year who may participate during the build season and go to regionals. This is due to the maximum occupany of the technology lab we work in. This year, we have 16 returning members, leaving space for 9 new members. 28 new member applications have been turned in.

Re: Team Size
 

I've got the same problem.... as Alex mentioned, we have 78 students right now. Way too many, but I think we'll grow until we colapse under our own weight. We've just become to POPULAR. )(Which can't be bad.)

Just interesting to see what other people can handle. (I'm not saying we can handle this many.)

we have 18 or so, we put everybody into the robot, and get all our projects done pre-season

Re: Team Size
 

mm... team size... i think we have about 60 people in our team... but about half of them shows up at the meetings... we have a lot of dedicated members... since "sigmaC@t season never ends" they are busy most of the time... we have different groups in our team who would do certain stuff for the team. the largest team is probably spam that i know of...

Re: Team Size
 

our team doesnt set a max or cap the amount of students that participate. when i joined the team in my sophamore year, i think we strated with around 100 students, from that meeting till kickoff, it dwindled to around 60 and after kickoff we had about 50, but only about 10-15 students who really were "die-hard" and put more then the required amount to travel with the team. This seems to happen every year and this year we have all ready gotten down to around 60. It kinda is tough at times to work as a team when you have so many people around even if they are in other rooms doing different things, you just seem to get distracted often.
~Mike

Re: Team Size
 

Team 135 has 17 studens this year. Our smallest team was 14 students and largest was 22. However, the team is actually a class of seniors so we have 100% turnover each year.

Re: Team Size
 

My team (501) has about 30-40 something members, which is pretty small compared to the number of people who attend the school (2100). As for big teams, biggest I've seen was about 70-80 students. Don't remember who it was though. All I know is that they were in green.

Fun House Time!!!
 

Its all an elaborate trick, done with LOTS and LOTS of mirrors. :p

Re: Team Size
 

15-20 maybe. I should know. I'm the membership secretary, but oh well. it's really not alot, but more than we've had in years past. There's only like 5 people who are ALWAYS there, though, when it comes to students.

Re: Team Size
 

My team is always changing we have had as little as probly 3-5 students to what was in are club picture last year like 40 but most of those people just wanted to get out of class.

Re: Technokats
 

We have 6 students and 4 mentors. It is a class too, and thats all we have. We had a few more before the kick-off but they all dropped. With a total student body of just over 300 in the school, we don't get too much support, but we try. Thing was, the college almost shut us down this year, but we really pushed to have the team again this year and barly got it back.

Re: Team Size
 

Our team usually has around 12 people that consistently come..but all said there is around 20 people who say they are on the team but hardly ever come.

Re: Team Size
 

We have 24 students and about 10 mentors. Everyone is around every day during the build season except for sundays. 6:30 am to 9:00 pm on weekdays and 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on saturdays. It is a major commitment for everyone on the team.

Re: Team Size
 

We're a big team as far as I can tell with 33 Students and like 20 Mentors allthough most of the time we're at a lower count than that per day.

Re: Team Size
 

We have about 25 students from 4 schools. But almost all 25 are active all week.

Re: Team Size
 

hah im pretty sure we have the lowest (prolly not somthing to say 'hah' about)

we have nine!:ahh:

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We have 26. 25 boys and 1 girl (me!!) and this is the biggest our team has ever been last year we had 16.

Re: Team Size
 

Our rookie year we started out with about 35-40 students. We realized quickly who were the dedicated ones. This year we are down to 14 on the guys team, and 3 on the girls team. An all girls team was an interesting choice this year.

For things like electronics and pnumatics, they are one person jobs. The girls bot was done a couple days ago. Us guys are still working on ours!

Re: Team Size
 

The team that I am now on has ~10 students and some that show up about once a month. There are also about 10 college mentors, so its a fun time having about a 1:1 ratio.

Re: Team Size
 

We have 4 high schoolers accompanied by 5 or 6 college students, and 2 adult mentors.

Re: Team Size
 

DONT EVEN! lol one year we only had 4 people on the team...

and in 06' we went to atlanta with 6 kids...

The Robo Wizards Usually dont have much on the team