[MrJohnston]

Four years ago, our team had around 30 members.... Last year, we started the season with over 100 and ended with over 70... We had 32 kids ante-up to go to St. Louis and 50 who lettered.... Only six graduated.... We are bracing for more this year.

What do we do? We are expanding our program to offer FTC teams... We have formal training that focuses on giving veterans the opportunity to specifically tutor rookies... We are actively seeking a lot of outreach... We are building several robots during fall training, so that even the newest members "touch robots." We form subgroups to work on specfic parts of the robot... Etc. Competition-wise, we are going to a fall event and hoping to add a third district competition - in which we would let the younger kids run the show.

And, we work our many mentors really hard.