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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
Just make sure you don't have any devious mentors who would do such a thing as remove/reapply the tape for students who offer bribes. 
Also, know that some teams might enjoy removing the tape to get your students in trouble. |
Or students from the team who break the rule remove duct tape from everybody's door (I didn't do that in high school
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Our team is actually very liberal with rules because we're smaller and our students are all pretty good about being where they're supposed to be and telling us their plans. We enforce going to lunch in groups and we do allow them to take the light rail in Dallas if they choose. Us engineering mentors are closer in age to the students than the other adults we'll tag along with the students. After dark they weren't allowed to leave the hotel without adult mentors being with them.
One issue our team had dealt with religion. Some of the boys wanted to go swimming but a few girls couldn't be around them shirtless and also couldn't use the pool so that was something we had to deal with. We still allowed the team to use the pool but the mentors reserved judgement that if the particular students who couldn't use the pool were being left out (perceived or real) we would have said no swimming period. Again, our students are pretty good and genuinely like each other so we didn't have an issue but with larger teams it's something you might want to think about BEFORE angry parents call you.