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Originally Posted by xitaqua
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I think the interest of the kids on the different programs will vary, and you won't know until you see..... There is no "magic bullet" every learning community is different.
My goal is to engage as many students as possible while keeping teams small, have 2 students per area (systems,chassis,manipulators,SW, electronics). Have them work in pairs (news/experienced).
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Wait, so what's year 5? Do they go
back to not having a competition, or do they continue in FRC? Is this a scale up program, or a four-year rotation? I think you had a lot of people around here very confused...
As far as a kids' interest/inspiring those not predisposed, but concern is not just that they'll have different interest levels in different programs, but that the
change itself is unnecessarily difficult. However, I had no idea that the groups were so small and operable on an individual basis. If you're not losing the edge-case kids, then I guess there's no worry. I'd envisioned you like rotating the entire state of Delaware (re: FIRST State) through a different program every year, so my head was spinning.
How well does it work to limit FRC teams to 10 students (2 per area)? That seems like it would actually skyrocket the cost density (geographically), not to mention really pressure the small teams. Do you still reach outlier students with the potentially lower word-of-mouth traffic?