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Re: Team??
Mainly it is a financial situation for us as well. Each year we either do 2 Regional competitions or a Regional and Championship. When we do 2 Regional competitions, we send our pit and flight crew down on Wednesday night and the rest of the team goes on early Friday morning for each event. If we go to a Regional and Championship, we send pit and flight on Wednesday night for the Regional and the rest of the team shows up on Saturday, but the whole team leaves on Wednesday for the Championship. Like I said, this is mainly for financial reasons, but the whole chaperone issue does play into it as well, since the two teachers who help out with the team will only do 1 competition each, that leaves parents/adults to pull up the slack, and we have to work around their work and family schedule. Now, there must be 1 chaperone per 10 kids, and there must be both male and female chaperones (especially in the hotel room), which for the whole team means 3 or 4 chaperones (we usually try to have more to make it less exhausting on the chaperone).
Our system works for us. Pit and flight are coveted positions (flight you have to try out for, pit is usually the "best" student from each sub group, chosen by our team captain and engineers).
Heidi
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