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Originally Posted by andyhoyt911
There are currently 5 competent people on our team, due to 12 team members just had to go and graduate on us last year. Does anyone else have this small of a team, and if so, how did YOUR team get the job done? All of our abilities are rather scattered, one of us can KIND OF program, one of us can wire, one of us can KIND OF machine, and yeah.
Are we alone out here?
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Pretty normal situation, actually. In our rookie year EVERYONE was in grade 12, so we were 100% rookies again the second year. This year we have just five or six people returning from last year's team.
I also infer that you actually have more than 5 people on your team, but that you aren't counting some of them because you have not deemed them "competent". It has been my experience that while some people can contribute more to a team than others, that everyone who approaches FIRST with a positivie attitude can contribute something of meaning if provided with sufficient guidance. Remember that FIRST isn't really about the robot... it is about the people.
You have four or five months to recruit new members and work on training and team building... make sure you use it. You can build a robot in six weeks, but it is pretty hard to build a team at the same time.
Jason