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Originally Posted by dcarr
Echo the 50%.
Any student who is interested is welcome to attend the competition on Saturday, but to be excused from school from team travel, our students must meet baseline requirements including attendance.
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This solves one aspect of the issue: preventing students that aren't really dedicated from wanting an opportunity to skip school.
However, it does not solve the other attendance issue: Students that are initially very interested in robotics, but due to distractions lose interest mid-build season.
From what I've seen, for the most part if a student isn't coming to 50% of the meetings, they don't really care enough to want to attend the competition.
The real interest for me lies in how to keep more of those students that initially show interest but lose interest for whatever reason. Many of these students probably couldn't make the time commitment -- thinking it was "Robotics Club" or something. But there are also some students that have the potential to become dedicated, but lose interest due to timidness or some other factor. I would love to hear key points to avoid losing such members.
Ideas that come to mind: Focusing on giving them tasks, making them feel part of the group, etc