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Originally Posted by njamietech
but still, teams should not require members to attend as grades, family, ect. all come first.
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Doesn't
FIRST come first?
I suppose 766 works pretty differently from most teams. We don't pay for team travel
other than mentors and advisors (all students pay their own way) and we don't have district-set limits on team field trips, so there are no restrictions on who can come to which events. Consequently, there are no requirements for attendance during the build season. If there were, we'd probably have fewer than ten people officially on the team; we need to count relatively uninvolved people to even claim a 20-person membership. The only real requirement is to have submitted the team medical form so that we know who to call if someone gets hurt.
We also don't have any grade requirements. Our team's attitude has always been that we'll take involvement at any level, high or low. If you want to devote every waking second to robotics, fail your classes, and flip burgers after you graduate, that's fine. If you want to skip every build meeting but show up to the regionals to cop free medals, that's fine. We may not recommend either approach, but we do ultimately rely upon the student to manage their own life appropriately.