[Jon Stratis]

For us, the only requirement we have is grades - that's a school-mandated requirement for all extracurricular activities.

As others have already indicated in this thread, the amount of time spent in an extracurricular can have a negative effect on your schoolwork and grades, it's important to find a suitable balance. Quite frankly, when you graduate and go to college or find a job, your grades are going to be more important than saying your on a FIRST team. A good college isn't going to sit back and say "well, FIRST makes up for the 1.5 GPA...", and a potential employer is going to look at it and say "1.5 GPA? This kid obviously doesn't have much motivation or commitment."

When it comes to grades, our faculty adviser keeps an eye on them for every student, and we try to intervene before it gets to a point where they have to leave the team. Hopefully by having a limit like this, the team can help motivate students to do better in their classes, when they need such motivation!