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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
Our team employes a Star Chart to keep our students on task. |
It took me a while to find it - from the home page, navigate to "About" and "Travel Requirements".
We have similar requirements to qualify as an officer (leader) or as a varsity team member (travels to remote competitions and local competitions on school days). We usually have one student and one mentor who keep a centralized log of hours worked, funds raised, etc; I believe they use a spreadsheet on our Google drive. Numbers from the logs are often referred to when it comes time for our end-of-season awards in May.
As to why we track, we have far more students at the school casually interested in being on the robotics team than we have resources (shop and meeting space and mentors are more strained than $$). Early in the season (first two weeks of October this year) we have "tryouts", which expose prospective members to the various tasks involved in the team, present them a challenge, and meets about 2/3 as densely as during build season. So far, we have had more students "drop out" during tryouts than we have had to "select out" after tryouts. We track service hours separately from build/writing hours, but do not break down work hours any farther.