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Originally Posted by 647techangel
Can you start another FIRST team in the same school? I ask this because our current team is no longer a club, but is part of another program(which has requirements that I think excludes students from FIRST). I would like to start another FIRST team but as a robotics club, I would like to keep it this way so every student to have an equal chance of joining.
any suggestions or ideas you can share with me???
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When I scanned through the other answers, I don't think I saw anyone get to the real heart of this matter.
As far as I know, an FRC team is required to have at least one student that has not graduated from High School (USA) yet, one responsible adult, and $6000 to give to a FIRST regional. There might be a few other criteria, but If there are, I don't think that they would enter into this discussion.
In the sense that matters
in this conversation, schools are nearly irrelevant. A school could lend its support to 20 FRC teams if it cared to. A school could choose to lend it's support to none if it cared to.
What matters is the that the students and the responsible adults choose to form a team, figure out from where to get their funding, and where to do their work. Often a school (equipped with motivated educators)
is the best choice. That is a large part of why there is often a 1-to-1 correspondence between teams and schools; but that doesn't limit teams to affiliating with just one school or limit schools to assisting just one team.
Blake