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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
1551 probably should be part of your rural network or at least should be involved.
They are an upcoming program. President Paul Gudonis told the volunteer crew their story during the Volunteer meeting in Atlanta last year.
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Sadly, we have not touched the FIRST Interactive Rural Support network. I asked one of our mentors about a year ago and the only response I received was that, "It was too much work." Although I did not like the outcome of the great program, there was nothing I could do. I have talked to some Alumni about it, but not too much was said. I only stumbled upon it about 2 years ago. I thought it was a really great program, and I wondered why I had never heard of it. Now I see it on the helpful links area on CD. You can see how dated it is by the team structure page.
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He did? News to me -- that's really cool!
...that said, to answer the question, we have between 25-30 students on the team every year -- more than any other extracurricular activity -- but many of those students are shared. (That is to say, if they bowl, or play basketball, or swim, or are in jazz band, etc., they share their time between extracurricular activities.) We generally have between fifteen and twenty students that do *only* FIRST during the build season, and even those we generally have to share at other times of the year.
It's part and parcel to living in the middle of nowhere!
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That is very impressive! I think that the reason for our team having the number it does in this size school is because of our requirements. Students are not allowed to be in basketball, football, the winter musical, or any other winter extracurricular activity for that matter. It is a requirement for team members to dedicate all of their time (minus school, sleep, and doctors appointments) to the robotics team. Although it is tough, I believe that this is what gives our team a little advantage over the other teams. Our students are dedicated to the team, and no exceptions are made.