FLL Team Help

[pfreivald]

Petrie, we have exactly that situation in our small town. Everybody seems to want it, but when it comes time to step up and do it, nobody will. ("I'm too busy" is the most common excuse -- I know it's mine... But I have one full time and three part time jobs and coach an FRC team!)

LedLover, if school regulations on who can be the coach is a problem, consider approaching 4-H. They're working with me on founding an FRC team, and I know they're involved in several FLL teams in the area.

[Garret]

In my first year on an FLL team, the team was run exclusively by high school students acting as mentors. When we signed up they required us to have one of our parents agree to "chaperone" the team at a portion of the practices. The parents would then rotate each practice, thus avoiding the time committment issue. The official coach for the team was usually the principal for the school, they simply would just put their name on the program and then sign stuff if necessary, but the mentors handled all of the administrative duties. This isn't the ideal program but it worked well enough.