Team Homes for Home Schoolers

[plnyyanks]

Even though we operate out of our high school, Team 1124 (Hartford, CT area) has no residency/schooling/other requirements as far as membership goes. If you're in the area, show up one day - we'll be glad to have you.

[wendymom]

Exploding Bacon FRC/FTC 1902 has at least 5 Home school families on our team. Our Lego Teams have homeschoolers as well.

[Mr. Mike]

Team 3138 is a nonprofit club that is open to anyone. We have students from 4 high schools and home school.

Innovators Robotics Inc.
3569 Ginghamsburg-Frederick Road
Tipp City, Ohio 45371
Innovators@woh.rr.com

[buildmaster5000]

I know 2421 (Northern Virginia) is mostly made up of home school students.

[teachsail]

Team 2584, Reseda Regents Robotics, has always had at least one member who is not attending Reseda HS including home schooled kids. We have even made a presentation to the San Fernando Valley Home School Parent group. The idea of competitive robotics was completely foreign to everyone there, and I think some thought I was trying to sell them something, but they were all very nice. So we will go back again this fall and try again. Most of the parents said that the kids were all booked up with other activities and that as a group they tend to move slowly, plan a lot, before they do something new.

[wilhitern1]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

So the contacts given in your thread here were not helpful? It's been less than 24 hours. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=97595

The references have indeed been helpful in a sense. And thank you so much for those! For the most part, but not sure yet, they don't feel that there is much hope unless we move to FTC. On the other hand, others have said that the laws in VA are not being handled appropriately and could be made to serve better. These of course are not lawyers...

There's still a long way to go on my personal front.

for this thread, I'm just trying to get more home schoolers involved in FRC nation wide! And information access is where you start.

[Siri]

On the VEX side, this year's World Championship Excellence Award winner, the VEXMEN (also from Downingtown/Exton, PA), also acceptsfrom home schooled and out-of-district students. -- confirmed to me by team coordinator

[Carol]

Originally Posted by Siri

What geographic are are you collecting for?

Team 1640 (Downingtown/Exton, PA) is always open to home schoolers. In fact, our captain this year is home schooled. We're not district-affiliated, so anyone who's ok with the drive is welcome. Many of our students commute 30min+, some ~1 hour. (Mentors are even crazier, anywhere from 45min-2.5 hours.)

FRC 1640 - Team Sab-BOT-age - Downingtown/Exton, PA - verified by team mentor

Our FLL club is also community-based, making it open to home schoolers as well. Also, I'd check with MOE Robotics (Delaware...basically all of it), as I'm virtually positive they're open to home school students, too.


For yourselves, I count 8 teams in the Richmond area. I know some teams must have school-driven policies behind membership, but I'd think someone could at least point you in the right direction.

Yes, MOE 365, since it is not affiliated with a school, has always been open to anyone from anywhere, and has had several home-schooled students in the past. (Don't think we have one this year but I'm not sure).

[GarrettF2395]

Team 2395, the Ninja Munkees out of Oklahoma city is primarily a homeschooled team, but will except anyone from a private or public school as well.

[vhcook]

Team 1825 is the metro homeschool team for the greater Kansas City area.

[pwnageNick]

Team 2949 PWNAGE (Batavia, IL) is open to any student. We take students from any high school as well as home-schooled students. We are also open to mentors from anywhere.

We currently have 2 home-schooled students as well as students from 7 different high schools. Also mentors from at least 5 different companies.

Anyone interested is welcome to join!!! (as long as you can make it here to meetings )

-Nick

[SteveGPage]

Team 836, The RoboBees, of Leonardtown, MD, have several homeschooled students on the team. We also actively support FTC 2843, Under The Sun, a homeschooled team that won the 2010 FTC World Championship.

[pianogrrl71]

Team 3504, The Girls of Steel, comes from 20 different schools, including two cyber schools and homeschool as well. We also support a rookie FLL team, which is 50/50 homeschool to public school.

[SharonO]

Our team is creating a database of homeschool-friendly teams and would like to update this thread. If your team is primarily homeschooled students or accepts homeschooled students and haven't already posted in here, please do so.

Thank you!
Sharon Ousley
Team 3528 Up Next
www.teamupnext.com

[Kyle A]

CRT 306 has always accepted home schooled students, we have a few this year.