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247's Policy

247 is now in it's 5th year.

Rookie: It was a club of 7 students, all worked hard and all were able to travel. There wasn't any restrictions

Second(My first year): This year it became an actual class and also the "Yowchuang Fan Club." Which we dubbed our group that stayed at lunch to just hang out, named after our coach Mr. Yowchuang. Everyone had an equal chance to be on the travel team. The team consisted of 24 members, those who didn't go to competitions was because they had prior engagements.

Third: This year the class exploded into 44 members, many of them Freshman who heard that the team "Goes to Disney" so they signed up. The 'Travel Team' ended up being about 26 students and was decided based on how much work they had put into the team. 247 has never been a team with an abundance of money, so we've done a lot of fundraisers. Mr. Yowchuang was at every one of them and knew who had been consistantly showing up. He then conversed with the "Yowchuang Fan Club" about the decisions (in cas.e there were some that deserved to be on the list that were not)

Fourth: Last year, Mr. Yowchuang left for personal reasons and Mr. Goldberg (from team 65 Huskie Brigade) became our new teacher/coach. The class had approximently 40 students and 24 was being the set number for travel team. Many of the students didn't work in the class setting and thus were not on the travel team. By the time the real FIRST season came about the class had about 30 people. Nobody was specifically refused for being on the Travel Team because 8 were either not able to be on the Travel Team (for various reasons) or dropped.

Fifth: This time around the fundraising policy has changed. We all start the year with -1,200 in our Travel Account which we need to balance up to 0. Each fundraiser we do 75% of the profits gets split equally into those whom participated's accounts. The other 25% goes to the team's general fund (for jerseys, supplies, equipment, etc). At 4 'check points' in the year we need to have $300, $600, $900, $1200 in our accounts. The amount we have is determined by how much we've raised plus personal deposit. i.e. If we raise $120 into our account at the first checkpoint we need to turn in a check for $180 to balance to $300. The class has about 23 people in it I think and most won't be on the travel due to the way the team is run this year. At this first checkpoint the average amount in each person's account was about $80-$100. I don't know how many people will be able to afford upwards of $900 to be on the team for this year. I know I can't.

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