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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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We have 49 students. Of them, 9 are graduating. We have 13 mentors, none leaving (that I know of). We also handed out about 200 flyers to students who go to our high schools. It really isn't bad, logistically, if you effectively arrange your team. We have a few main subteams; mechanical, CAD, electrical, programming, and business. This season, we had 9 members in programming, 6 in business, 3 in CAD(we hope to get this number up), 5 in electrical, and the remaining 26 in mechanical. That sounds imbalanced, but it actually works out great. We divide mechanical into groups that each work on a specific robot mechanism (this year included curved shooter, linear shooter, drive train, ground collector, shooter angle, and climber team). Electrical and programming work with each of the mechanical subgroups so that they can get their prototypes wired and programmed. Sounds complicated on paper, works flawlessly in practice.