can you have two FIRST teams in one school?

[647techangel]

Can you start another FIRST team in the same school? I ask this because our current team is no longer a club, but is part of another program(which has requirements that I think excludes students from FIRST) . I would like to start another FIRST team but as a robotics club, I would like to keep it this way so every student to have an equal chance of joining.
any suggestions or ideas you can share with me???

[Beth Sweet]

100% allowed. Talk to Martians (494) and More Martians (70) both out of Goodrich HS

[Rich Wong]

Yes.
In NYC, Westinghouse High School have Team 354 & Team 2681.
In Bronx Science High School have Team 1155 & Team 2265.

[647techangel]

do you have to have a minimum number of students to start the other team?

[GaryVoshol]

It's certainly allowed. There's questions though -

• Will your new team be welcomed by the school administration?
• Do you have mentor support?
• Do you have financial support?
• Will there be hard feelings between the two teams?

[647techangel]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

It's certainly allowed. There's questions though -

• Will your new team be welcomed by the school administration?
• Do you have mentor support?
• Do you have financial support?
• Will there be hard feelings between the two teams?

everythings ok, but we need to work on the financial part of it

[Scott Carpman]

Here's my perspective on these 4 questions:

Will your new team be welcomed by the school administration?
More than you could ever imagine.

Do you have mentor support?
We share two mentors, but the girls have a separate advisor and seperate mentors.

Do you have financial support?
Yes, but it takes that much more work to fundraise. Each team is now in a competition to bring in the most money and do the most community outreach.

Will there be hard feelings between the two teams?
Not at all (unless one's on red and the other is on blue for a match). It's like one giant family really.

We're in our second season of 2 teams/1 school and couldn't be happier. If you have any questions or need help setting up the second team, feel free to PM me.

[SL8]

Aewsome! Thanks for the offer, because we are seriously considering breaking off and forming a new team.Just one question..

Most people who know team 647 know us for our military image,

with a new number, what will people recognize us as?

[647techangel]

Originally Posted by SL8

.Just one question..

Most people who know team 647 know us for our military image,

with a new number, what will people recognize us as?

they can be army while we will be air force,it will be like branches of the military(but were cooler )

[Scott Carpman]

It could be the Brigade, the Unit, the Force....etc.

Or, you could be the Cyber (other animal) Corps.

[647techangel]

Cyber Tooth Corps ?

[SL8]

Originally Posted by Scott Carpman

It could be the Brigade, the Unit, the Force....etc.

Or, you could be the Cyber (other animal) Corps.

The wolves comes from our school mascot, but I kinda like the Cyber wolf/pack Force

[647techangel]

I like that
sounds kool

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by SL8

Aewsome! Thanks for the offer, because we are seriously considering breaking off and forming a new team.Just one question..

Most people who know team 647 know us for our military image,

with a new number, what will people recognize us as?

I would encourage you to also communicate with FIRST HQ early on in the process to determine whether or not the new team would be considered a rookie team, based on the criteria for the coming year or receive a recycled number.

[Laura340]

Having two teams in our school is great!! And don't worry about one team on the blue alliance and the other on the red, what we do is cheer for purple!