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Team 810's policy is that anyone can join, regardless of academic credentials. the only requirement is for members to contribute to, and not hinder the teams effort. so far we have had about 70 people join our team this year, making the organization extrememly difficult. however, i think its extremely important for the team to be open to everyone because FIRST is about improving the students, not just trying to win the competition. its worth sacrificing some efficiency if it means that more students can be positively impacted by FIRST. Even weaker students deserve the opportunity to participate. my solution to the problem of involving all of the members is to divide them into much smaller workgroups, each of which will have its own projects to work on for this part of the year. we are also developing a point system based on attendance, participation, and fundraising. when the actual competition comes along, only those with the greatest amount of points will be allowed to travel.

do any other teams have similar merit point systems for deciding the travel team? if so, how do they work, and how well have the worked in past?