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One big reason for kids to stop coming is that you just can't possibly have all 60 students work on the robot, no matter how complicated it is. Sooner or later, some of the students will take charge, and work harder on the robot and others will feel that they don't have a place on the team.
That is why a lot of teams have a lot more groups doing things other than working on the robot, such as the web team, animation team, chairman award team, fund raising team, PR team, photographers, etc. That way, you can attract a lot of people who aren't interested in just engineerings, and expose them to the competition even though they don't really like to work on the robot.
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1999-2001: Team 192 Gunn Robotics Team
2001-2002: Team 100, 192, 258, 419
2002-2004: Western Region Robotics Forum, Score Keeper @ Sac, Az, SVR, SC, CE, IRI, CalGames
2003-2004, 2006-2007: California Robot Games Manager
2008: MC in training @ Sac, CalGames
2009: Master of Ceremony @ Sac, CalGames
2010: GA in training @ SVR, Sac.
2010-2011: Mechanical Mentor, Team 115 MVRT
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