[Karibou]

1189 is comprised of students from both high schools in the same school district. Due to district restrictions, we could not accept students from other area high schools (public or private), but one of the local private schools has formed their own team (3175).

For us*, it isn't very difficult at all to operate with students from two schools. In Fall 2009, we moved our build space from one school to the other, and since then the amount of students coming in from each school has been pretty balanced (there used to be a severe deficit of students from the school with the old build space). I don't know if it was a district policy or just a coincidence, but we also got a new faculty advisor that worked at the new school. If forms had to be turned in to the school somewhere between meetings, we would designate one person from each school to collect them and turn them in at once, but we gradually moved towards releasing the forms far enough in advance so that they could be turned in during meetings.

For banking, I believe that we had one account with the district, but if we needed to talk to someone about getting a check or whatnot, the advisor talkled with the appropriate people at the school they taught at.

One of the challenges is recruiting evenly at all of the schools you have participants from. You may not get the same amount of interest from every school, but it is still probably best to give students in the same district an equal opportunity to get involved with the team.

As with all things involving schools, your mileage may vary. School districts can be finicky, especially if you cross district lines.


*Okay, I'm alum, but from what I've heard from and observed of the current team and its operations, not much has changed.