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Re: Student Participation Agreement

To follow up on Mika's post, here is a link to the actual PDF file for the form we ask students to sign, in our case called "Team Expectations":

http://team.marobotics.org/forms/07/team_contract.pdf

As mentioned, Team 766 isn't exactly inundated with membership applications, so we wanted to avoid having a contract that seemed too intimidating. Besides, for the most part the students on our team are cooperative and enthusiastic, so it's not like we have a great need for regulations and rules. However, we still like the idea of having *some* kind of participation agreement, hence the aforementioned form being one of the two essential ones required in order to be considered a member (the second one being the team medical/contact info form in case of emergencies, as noted by Mika).

Compare this current version with our previous rendition, which was a bit on the authoritarian side, focused on consequences, and included mentor expectations ():

http://team.marobotics.org/documents...sContract.html

I strongly disliked the older version in both its tone and its efficiency, so I took it upon myself to rewrite the expectations in as positive and succinct a manner as possible. In particular, I provided a clear reason for each request we were making to try and emphasize that the purpose of the expectations is to streamline team activities, not to entangle people in unnecessary strictures.
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