[Carol]

As a community team, MOE has a standard form that our students use to get permission to miss school days to attend events. They have to return it to us signed by the school principal or guidance counselor. It has never been a problem.

We recruit in the spring for next year's team (as we formally start in September) but you certainly can recruit now. Most of our team members come from either word-of-mouth (friends of past team members) or from our school demos. Every May team members arrange assemblies at their various schools to show off the robot and describe the program. There have been the occasional team member who found out about us at a community event, but that audience is typically younger than high school age.