Thread: New England District Events 2016
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Re: New England District Events 2016
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Originally Posted by Ken Streeter View Post
Ouch. This is very difficult news for us on 1519. As mentioned earlier in this thread, our team hasn't competed in any Sunday events due to religious beliefs of many of our members. Our team doesn't meet on Sundays during the build season for this reason.
I've been following this thread with interest and I really feel for 1519's team. It *is* a really difficult situation.

While we can't change this, I want to point out another side effect.

We draw most of our students from a pretty conservative area. So when we look to draw new students into our team (our host school district has a total of 400 students so there's not a huge pool), saying that we'll be competing on a Sunday can be a downside. For a couple years, we didn't have team meetings on Wednesday evenings either for the same reason: too many students wouldn't be there.
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