[Joey P]

Team 1676 has a big group of students this year, and we have in previous years. In our high school, we have a computer/engineering room that is big enough to hold our team and mentors. Some advice that I can give you is: 1) If you can't hold your team meetings in a single classroom, try to hold them in the cafeteria, or library in your school that way everyone can attend the meeting. 2) Our team has a program called Pi-Tech Academy, which is very similar to what you said on how you train the rookies on your team. I don't think that your going wrong there, but what you should do is have a sub team leader for each thing on the team and then the students who want to do that sub team; let them created a schedule with the sub team leader on when they will be taught different things that they should know prior to build season. That is how we teach our rookies and it has been good so far. Hope this advice helps!