Having such a large amount of students is often a difficult situation. In my opinion, I don't really consider dropping people or limiting admissions an option, and as far as splitting the team in two, like it's been said, that depends entirely on space and money. This past season Heatwave had 100+ students join the team in September, by the time we got to January we only had about 70 members active, but not all of which traveled to both regionals and nationals. It is my personal goal to try and get nearly 100 members this year and keep at least 90 of them active.
I'm working on some "unofficial" ideas about splitting the team into sub-teams, similar to what you, then winged wonder mentioned. By splitting the team up I intend to get people placed into these groups and have them devote their efforts to one or more of the teams. I hope that this will give everyone the opportunity to actually do something for the team. With each of these teams geared toward a specific aspect of a FIRST team and with both a mentor and responsible student in charge of each team. If it works right, it should almost be like teams within a team, and hopefully work out if everything goes well. But, this is just my idea, it may work for you, it may not, it's only still in a sort of "development stage"
Good luck to your team
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Originally Posted by sanddrag
That is absolutely huge. Whatever mentor that has to deal with that number of kids deserves some sort of award or something.
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^good point. Hope you figure something out.