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Originally Posted by rcmolloy
I do believe that all students should be recognized if it were to be within the team or outside of the team. All members should be important regardless of their contribution. It really doesn't matter if a student did not do as much work as the next or none at all. They are there supporting the team and want success just as much as the rest even if they only participated in a small part or none of it at all.
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I whole heartedly agree. I mainly meant that as a point towards Akash's few points. That you should show recognition privately to the student of what their TRUE accomplishments are done.
If there's a student that hasn't done much but maybe has been there, listened and done things that they were asked to do. They deserve recognition for being a team member and doing the appropriate things.
I will say that there are some students that clearly deserve more recognition in certain aspects (i.e website, animation) than others for that aspect. I do not believe just showing up and "being" there qualifies you to be a member of the team, and I mean that for students ONLY.
Like Al and Andrew talked about, there are certain expectations that teams have of their members (not to mention their mentors), and if those aren't met they cannot travel. Travelling and going to competition in the team (where the team covers most of your expenses) is a privilege, and without working for that privilege then you will not be able to recieve it.
Also back to Akash, what I meant (stupid phrasing on my part) is not that YOU would say it, but someone else COULD say it, and we both agree that it's not right. Likewise, I would apply that to the website and animation. That the award is given to the TEAM not those two students, hence its a TEAM award, and within the TEAM not only is it the responsibility of mentors to recognize the student(s) that were a big part of that award but also for the team to recognize its own members. You can even extend this to Chairman's or the Robot Awards, that the Chairman's presenters/essay writers are the actual people that PHYSICALLY did the work for that award, and the drive team and "building" teaams are the one that got the robot to win BUT it's a TEAM award, and we should within the team recognize these people and their PHYSICAL contribution to the award.
To further clarify in like a sentence or two. Publicly its a TEAM award, privately it is still a TEAM award. But Privately ONLY privately it is (I believe) a duty of mentors to make sure that the students that put in a lot of work (and this could be all 30 students on the team, or in our team's case all 20 students that actually worked on the bot) get recognition for the work that they did. And furthermore, all students that did work should be recognized, and encouraged, IF they did contribute to the team IN ANY WAY.
(Thanks Akash!!!!)