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Originally Posted by sanddrag
I'm curious what those of you with over 50 students do with them all. It sounds like a logistical nightmare. Also, how many mentors do you have when you have a team of 50 or 70?
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To answer the second question, my team has 32 mentors and a booster club-- the "mentor" designation is specifically for adults that work with a designated subteam or subteams on our team, and who show up regularly enough that they can actually contribute (a metric which varies based on what subteam we're talking about-- the mentors for build subteams tend to be around more often than the mentors for our media or finance groups).
As for how my team manages having 83 students, we first divide them into subteams, some of which couldn't exist without this many people-- for example, we have four different "manipulator" subteams which work on different aspects of of whatever we're using to play the game that year. Another subteam that wouldn't exist if we didn't have so many people is our "Lighting up robotics" subteam, which (drawing from our team motto), is a bunch of kids who like electronics but for whatever reason don't want to/like working on the robot-- they work year-round to make cool new LED things for team members to wear or to hang in our pit or whatever. We also tend to do things in parallel-- having multiple groups working on the same problem helps both the students and our mentors grow (which is good because most of our mentors showed up in the last 2-3 years).