[Al Skierkiewicz]

WildStang originally consisted of students from the Wheeling WILDcats and the Rolling Meadows muSTANGs. We are in the largest school district in Illinois outside of Chicago consisting of six schools and over 12,000 students. At one time there were two FRC teams in the district. The two schools on the second team opted to join Battlebots IQ and continue with that program today. WildStang draws students from any school in the district and with local policy, accepts home schooled students in our district for extra curricular activities as well. Currently we have students from four of the schools and home schooled students as well. Our school board is very supportive with many of the members attending WildStang events and the Midwest Regional throughout the year. We also participate in FTC, FLL and VEX. It is unfortunate but we end up turning away students every year as we can only manage about 60 students for FRC. Our program is a graded class in the district thanks to several students making a presentation to the school board many years ago (this is our 17th season). During the fall class this past year, we had 115 students spread across FRC, FTC and VEX.