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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday
Our team has a hard limit of 55, due to School District policies, so we are required to cut as many people as required to get to that number, unfortunately.
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Wow, our schools are like opposites. Yours says you can only have so many - ours, which is a school of 6500, says we cannot restrict anyone from joining and can only kick people off for disciplinary reasons (really bad disciplinary reasons - only ever happened a couple of times).
On topic, though - if our team was to have an applications process, and I were the one deciding how it went, I would make it based on:
- Grades in the first quarter
- year (loweclassmen would have higher precedence)
- knowledge of engineering, programming concepts, etc (not a major consideration)
Returning members would have had to have put in a certain number of hours, just so that people who aren't interested don't take up the spots of those that do.
I would NOT make the application based on questions like why a student wants to be on a robotics team. To me, a student's motivation doesn't matter, just that they do and what they can contribute. If somebody only wants to be on the team because they know that colleges love it, I say let them, as long as they will contribute.