[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by boiler

One sidenote to this conversation - Within your team, whose obligation is it to present the Honor Code to the new members? Once instilled, whose obligation is it to police the team and keep the Code alive in the team's conscience? (by "whose" I mean coaches, teachers, mentors, NEMs, parents, veteran students, etc.)

Everyone's - beginning at the top - with the leaders.
Oftentimes, when a new member joins the team, be they student, mentor, parent - they have the understanding that a robotics team builds robots. Period. In our team, we often hear the questions, 'why can't we do that?' or 'why do we have to do it this way?' These questions provide excellent opportunities for the leaders and the veteran team members to provide information and training, helping the new members understand the process. It is a process providing guidelines and how to build and compete with robots for a FIRST competition following the rules, respecting and understanding them and the code of honor.

It is important that the team leaders are on the same page with this or things can become chaotic very quickly. It will affect the actual build process and the organization/smooth running of the team as well as the competition(s).