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Originally Posted by JBotAlan
Try leaving messages like the ones Zac Hitt, our captain, left on my machine. www.geocities.com/jakethebrikhed/ZacGayness.mp3
Seriously, try assigning important jobs to each person, and call persistantly. That way, you know if they are still part of the team, or if they quit, so you can stop wasting your time and energy calling them. That in itself should do it. Good luck. |
Yeah, I agree. We call people, e-mail, post on the team's forum, and "stalk" them in homeroom/halls. Calling has proven to be the most efficient, though.
But with the issue of letting them go to the regionals: we have a small team, and would love for everyone to be extremly dedicated, but sometimes, people just aren't that into it...until they see it for themselves at a regional. If you take them to a competition, chances are they'll get hooked.
You could tweak your policy a bit, and require a certain amount of hours that they give to the team, and keep a log in the workshop. If they still don't commit, than you might want to inform them that you cannot consider them a member because of their lack of dedication. Its a somewhat long process, but it helps us keep those who just were a little hazy about robotics in general for their first year.