[santosh]

Sorry for th minor confusion about BEST. Our BEST team is a team that competes in another competition called BEST which stands for Boosting Engineering Sience and Technology. It is a smaller scale robotics competition.
Ok guys. We have 140 people expected actually more than that next year
in our club. We have a magnet program within our school and that is
where we get most of our students from. We only have 3 mentors from
our school and we work along side GT. In that number of 140+ GT is not
included.

We do have an application process which allows us to help move certain
people into certain teams. Each team has its own leader. Our business
team that was mentioned kind of is our promotion team and fundraising
team balled into one. Here is a break down of our club right now.

BEST Team= Participates in the building of the BEST robot. (9th and 10th)

Fundraising Committee= headed by the treasurer. The Fundraising Team
helps look for sponsorships. Schedule Fundraising events that the
entire team is supposed to help out with by attending (all grades).

Tech Team= designs trading cards, website handling, t-shirt graphics,
robot CAD, banner design, creates scouting Database, Runs the Cyber
Center, etc. (all grades)

Outreach Committee= schedules most of the outreach events. (All grades)

Scouting Team= takes part in scouting out other teams. Helps with team
spirit and promoting our team at competitions. (all grades)

Lego Team= Mentors Lego Teams twice a week. Helps teach at FLL work
shops. Will be responsible for starting Jr. Lego League teams in the
county. (All grades)

FIRST Team= this team designs and builds the FIRST robot. (11th and 12th)
WE are mentored by Georgia Tech. They help guide us when it comes to
the design of the robot and building it.

VEX Team= If we are picked will build the VEX robot and if not we
mentor the other teams because we had to build 17 of the demo vex bots
for nationals

Promotional team= promotes the team (no idea of what we really are
doing with this team)

2 FRC teams are most likely out of the question. We spent $52k this
year. And that was a lot. So I doubt we will have 2 teams. And there
are multiple teams in our county making it very hard to get money.

Our FRC team only consists of like 15 members. This helps us because
otherwise we would be killing ourselves with 140 people down there
trying to build.

We open our club to everyone in our school because we want everyone to
be able to experience robotics. All of our members who want to go on
trips can go on trips and this year, to be able to go on trips, you
have to attend a certain % of the meetings outreach events and
fundraising events.

We don't want a smaller team. We want a team that is more involved.
Last year with 80 something members we only had like 30 come to our
meetings.

Thank you guys so much for all of your input. Sorry for such a long post.
There are a few issues with our system and we are just trying to fix it.
That attendance% is lower than Shaq's ft %. I just want
everyone to some how stay interested. People join
robotics not knowing what robotics is all about. They want to build
and they don't understand that if they stay with the club, that they
will move to a build team.