This is a special case that most schools don't have, but our FRC team is a junior-senior only team that is a class during school. We also have 3 FTC teams in our school that function as an after-school club for freshman and sophomores. Due mostly to word-of-mouth and the middle school FLL teams in our area, the FTC teams get a lot of students and most of them stay with the team throughout the year (all of the serious students stay). Since the FTC teams and FRC team use the same shop area, the underclassmen get to see FRC firsthand and that inspires many of them to sign up for the class as they come to their junior year.
My class was basically the first generation to go through 2 years of FTC at our school, and our FRC program seems to be growing now that the FTC generations are becoming upperclassmen. Not to mention, our team seems to be doing better* in FRC now that we have FTC experience
*5 banners in 2 years and seeding in the top 8 at championships.
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2012-2013: FTC 4601 (student)
2014-2015: FRC 135 (student) - 5 banners in 2 years!
2016-present: FRC 4272 (mentor)
Thanks to all of our alliance partners!
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