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Originally posted by Warren Boudreau Keith,
We currently have 100 +/- students on the SPAM roster. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with all of them come build season. With veterans like Izzie and Hix, I'm sure I'll figure something.
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WOW...
No
wonder you're called "SPAM"!!! How many are "the hard core" members that participate a lot (vs "paper" or "meeting only" members)?
What to do with them? Just have them all sign up here... Oh, BTW, tell them to put on their CDF registrations that "kmcclary" referred them here ...
Seriously though, are you looking for
real suggestions for something to do with them? Although a rookie team, Pioneer is
THE largest comprehensive HS in MI, with about 2800 students, 800 in the Freshman Class alone. Our initial signup included tons of students, but we'll soon see how many
really become the "hard core". Therefore, we've expected from Day One that within a few years we'd be wrestling with the "what to do with extra students" problem, so we've already started thinking about it. We may want to swap ideas on the subject.
OOC, with a team of your size, do you differentiate between your "home team" and "traveling team" for "away games" (Regionals that require travel and hotel)? We're lucky. One regional (GLR) is in our back yard (<10 miles away), so EVERYONE goes, but we're still working out how to handle the cost of "away games" with a large team without going broke...
If someone hasn't already, maybe we should start a separate "what to do with large teams" thread, to see what other big teams do, both WRT traveling, and other activities to keep everyone busy. I like your "scavenger hunt" idea, but I'd also like to focus their experiences toward education and robot building experiments or labs. I'm meeting FTF with another team's teacher soon to discuss that very topic.
- Keith