[leeivyca]

This sounds like a great topic. 766 will be at the Championships but I won't be there in person this year. I'll try and convince another parent to attend, and I would also be interested if you're able to let us participate online.

Parents have well defined roles on 766. Mostly they are fairly standard: we take the lead on most of the fund raising, we supply the meals & snacks for the build sessions, and we provide transportation when a robot needs to travel to a competition or outreach event.

Also, since our build sessions are held on our high school campus and it's not possible for our faculty adviser to attend every build session, the school district requires at least one parent to supervise the team at any given time, and parent supervisors must pass a background check first.

Sometimes a parent also acts as one of the technical mentors too, but that does not happen too often on our team.