[Stacy]

Here are some numbers from the 2001 season from team 353:
Engineers: 1 (from underwriters labs.)
Teachers: 4 (2 from the HS and 2 from the Middle School)
Parents: about 5 active ones
Students: 35
Female: 15 Male: 19

Last year we split up into 2 groups:
Engineering: This group met Monday-Thursday from 7-10 and Saturdays from 9-1.
Publicity: This group met 3 days a week after school for about 2 ½ hours. Here we worked on things such as t-shirt designs, banners, posters, and buttons. The reason we worked so much is because all of our banners were handmade, none of our banners were made for us.

The only thing that upset me about how our team ran like this last year was that most of the girls decided to do the artwork/publicity stuff, and most of the boys did the engineering. There were a few of us who went to both, but it was pretty much split like that. I am proud of my team for being almost 50 50 with the male/female ratio.
A few days ago we had a meeting and started talking about new committees for next year. We want to do this so we can have more kids able to volunteer to be leaders. This will make them feel more important and want to participate more, and ALSO, since we have to many students leaving after the 2002 season for college, we will be able to groom more kids to be leaders. Some of the groups we thought of were:
Engineering, animation, rules/strategy, In school fundraising, public relations, awards.
Hopefully these groups will work this year, and I can’t wait to hear from other people to know if I’m forgetting any groups.
Thanks for responding everyone!!!