Building just isn't a priority anymore

[dodar]

Even though our team is quite different than yours in the fact that your team is about 204 times the size of ours, we have had 1 singular set of rules that has not changed from the beginning of our team back in 2005. That rule is that no matter what part of the team you are on, that to travel to our home regional, Florida, you had to put in at minimum 25 hours, to go to our travel competition it was 50 hours and to go to CMP(and thats only if we made it) 90 hours. And throughout the 5 years that I have competed on this team(4 as a student +1 as a mentor) I have seen students come through and do the bare minimum and ive seen kids go over 200+ hours. I myself as a student probably put close to 1000 hours into our team's build seasons. But as the more hours you need to travel, the more involved each student becomes and the more they learn about each part of the team and the interest in each sub-team grows, until you dont have to beg these kids to be a part of the whole team; they beg to make the team bigger and better.