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Our team has a problem with slackers, so unfortunately we have to track work hours in order to make sure only the hard working students go. However, some students show up and do no work, but it still shows up the same as my hours of painful and stressful labor. We don't really have a competent way of combating this except that when the leaders make the decision of who gets to go to nationals they try not to count hours too heavily. This also presents a problem, because of favoritism and the fact that some of our team members are a bit more "rebellious" than some of the people who don't care about robotics. The people who I hang out with, i feel, are classified as rebellious just because we dislike the way things are being run on the team and we care enough to try to fix it(unlike the "slackers" who are loved by our leaders b/c of their apathy). It was not a problem for me, as the leaders knew I had worked very hard, but there was a student who was not allowed to go to Florida who hangs out with us and who did an incredible amount of work on our Chairman's award submission. There was a incident where he supposedly did something(of which there was no proof) and because of the politics on our team(the leaders didn't like him!) he was not allowed to go. Plus, it was his senior year! There were other similar incidents throughout the year(this was probably the most serious). I dont know about you guys but our team has extreme problems with taking hours, but we have extreme problems when we disregard them as well!
Politics Suck!
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