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Re: [FTC]: Ideal team size for FTC team of middle schoolers

Even 15 kids on a team is a bit much for FTC. For the last two years, I have been running two teams out of the same school. The greatest challenge is the budget. Semi-doubles. At least for us, even when we had two "teams" we functioned as one, with different designs from each "team."

If you think that you will be keeping all 32, then yes, I would make another team. 7-9 kids is a great number for a team. As for mentors, our teams met at the same time most of the time, so the mentors could float around.
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