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Originally Posted by Ken Leung
Several students have said that they shouldn't have to come in because they were "promised" that they wouldn't have to (in fact, they were warned that they probably WOULD need to). The worst part? They actually DIDN'T show up.What can I do? How can I get people to come in? I'm only a lowly student; is there anything I can tell the adults to help resolve the situation?
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Another team's mom just called me to complain about the same thing. We experience it on our team too. There are a handful of kids we can count on. Sometimes tho it just takes follow up. One of our kids hadn't been reading his emails, was new, thought meeting daily was only during that one week. One phone call to him and he's back on track.
IMO you might want to call each student and plainly tell them the facts of building a robot in a short time - and let go of expectations that you telling them will bring them in. You might want to let parents know - sometimes the kids aren't translating to the parents what's really going on. And, yes, I try to have food at every meeting. That can sometimes get time consuming for me, and frustrating when I'm playing phone tag with a food sponsor. But having food at every meeting helps us retain our workers. Take a look at our sponsor list, and you might get some ideas of the food places that will donate.