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Re: Number of members allowed in a team
We have tried to limit our team to no more than 35 members, for two reasons. One is the size of our meeting space. The other is that with a larger team we run out of tasks for the students. There is only so many buttons you can make!

Al's comment on subteams is true as well. Depending on the subteam, with more than 6 you do see idle hands and bored students. We have a large number of subteams though - mechanical, programming, electrical, web, Chairman's, etc. The mechanical is actually more than 6 students as it is broken down in sub-sub teams, depending on the robot - chassis, arm, lifter, whatever is needed that year.

We are blessed that we enough mentors so that there is at least one for each subteam

Last year we had too many students apply for the team so we had the freshman start a Vex team, that we funded, with the agreement that any who wanted would automatically be on the FRC team the next year.

I know some teams limit the number of students because of travel costs, but on our team students pay their own travel so any who want to go is allowed.
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