[Wolfe]

Two interesting ideas here, both splittig from the school entirely and joining our team. Both are good ideas but have thier problems. They had one engineering mentor this year and she really couldn't give that much help. They would need quite a bit of support from parents etc. With that option we certainly have our work cut out for us.

The other option is that of joining the teams. In 2001, we considered that and decided against it for a few reasons. As you know it's always harder to communicate between two schools and to start working with people you don't know. Also we have a policy of keeping a small and efficient team. The other problem is that they are a girl's school while we are a guys school. Any of you who have worked as camp counsellors and similar sorts of jobs know how badly relationships can f*ck up working with someone. And the guys who generally do robotics at our school are not as .... experienced ... in dealing with the opposite sex as your average Joe. However this is certinly an option again if they can't have thier own team.

Thanks everyone for your thoughts.