[Sachiel7]

Our team, RAPTAR Robotics, is comprised of homeschool students. Over the past few years, we've expanded to allowing students from schools who do not have a team yet.
But I've been on "all" homeschooling teams for 4 years.
They are more difficult to run, without the financial/official backing of a school, but like said before, we get to define the rules. I have found in my experience that my experience in FIRST through this type of team has allowed for much more growth and creativity. Not saying that public schools dont, (I've only been homeschooled for my highschool "career") but I'm just saying that the way we ran our team allowed everyone to grow and be creative as much as and however they pleased. It also really means alot more "coming together" to make it happen. It takes more work, since you don't have school facilities, to find a place to build, for example. Heck, this years bot was created in my den, driveway, the Ashland County Library, Minivan of Ashland LLC, etc. I've stood outside with a TV Set lamp at 1 AM in my driveway with 3 colored triangles on the ground and a laptop and the bot testing out the color tracking this year.
Obviously, its a whole different experience for us guys.