[Nica F.]

From experience on a past team, it seemed best that we limit who gets to go on each trip.

For the home regional, the whole team is allowed to attend. If the member however is in bad standings (suspension, not meeting minimum GPA requirement, etc.) they are not allowed to represent the team. They of course are allowed to attend no matter what seeing it is a public event, but aren't allowed to be in the team's pit, wear the team shirt, so on and so forth.

*In addition to meeting team standards, we require all students who plan on going on the trip to have each of their teachers sign a slip approving their ability to skip those classes. If the student is a borderline student or should not be one to miss additional classes, we highly take that into consideration.

For out of state Regionals we usually limit the students to 10 per chaperone. Generally, for out of state events, we usually bring one male and female adult giving us the opportunity to bring more or less 20 kids. The picking of the kids who get to go are based on attendance during build season, participation in fundraisers, and their contribution to the team.


Knowing that many teams have more than 20 students, we make sure to alternate who gets to go on which trips (if your team is attending more than one regional). Of course you're going to get disputes on why someone can't go on a certain trip but all trips are earned and just as others have said before me, they are privileges.