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Dave
I agree with you completely. The team is most closely associate with the school
and most of the responsibility and experience that affects how the team does from year to year comes from the adults.
So depending on which organization those adults are tied to (the sponsor or the school) you will have very different results when a team is switched from one sponsor to another, or from one school to another.
I guess it all depends on your point of view. If you have a major corporation as your sponsor, and they are supplying the funding, the engineers, coordinating your travel, your facilites, your tools and equipment
and all the school has to do is make sure the students show up, and supply one teacher as official point of contact, then if you loose that sponsor it sure feels like you are starting over
and the are shades of grey all the way up.
I would hope that no one would misuse the NASA grants, and claim to be a rookie team just to get extra money, esp if they have a source of funds from somewhere else.
and I would also hope that if an existing HS team lost their sponsor, they would (could) at least talk to someone at NASA, and see if they qualify as a new team, based on their particular changes in sponsorship/financial situation.
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