[klrswift]

910 comes from a Catholic school in the metro Detroit area. The team is a completely voluntary after school activity, but we have a class that is designed to get students interested in the program that we have during the first semester. It is taught by our lead mentor and mimics teaches the students the fundamentals of what they need to know to help design, build and program the robot in the winter. We have 22 students who are there because they are interested in engineering, and didn't take it because they thought it was a "blow off"(we offered a drop because we originally had the class capped at 15!). Last year, three senior members of the team acted as teaching assistants and contributed to the mentoring process that FIRST is all about. It is important to offer some kind of structured learning, but we found that it was a bad idea to require involvement in one as a prerequisite for the other.

Good luck getting your class going again.