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Originally posted by Matt Krass
Does anybody else think this is a bad idea? I don't like the idea of rejecting students before you see what they're really capable of (actually I dislike rejecting students altogether but that's a new post in itself), especially if you're rejecting them electronically. I know my team never would've accepted me as is, I was an idiot, no skills, but I learned and I made our auto code work. We had a very successful season also. You don't need the top students you need the dedicated ones. Two students with no clue but enough dedication to work on something is always better than one expert who doesn't care enough notto leaveit until the last day. You can't find out who's dedicated via forms or a two-minute meeting, the ones who are dedicated are the ones who'll stick around long enough to design, build and test it. Besides what's in a trophy, my season was worth it for me before build was over.
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For the most part, I agree with Matt.... but at the same time (at least with our team) every year we run very tight with funding. We can't handle more than 25-30 students each year, or else we would have to charge much much more for students to go on trips. As for the meeting, we do that with everyone. We don't really ask what skills they have, as like prerequisites... but more along the lines of "Do you know what you want to learn, and what will you do to try to get there?" If a student is unsure, they'll talk about different areas... and see where that student could fit in. I know we had something like 37 people interested when I joined 2 years ago... but we could only support 25 that year... I know that they did the best job to make it fair, I know that we spent lots of time trying to figure out another way to be able to have them join the team. So with all my rambling... I'm basically saying that some teams have limits, and in that case unfortunatly some people will have to be left out, but what about next year? The student could always try again, or even participate during the build season and maybe be squeezed in, I think that's happened... so it partially depends on the student's dedication, and money issues unfortunatly.