Overcoming challenges of having an FRC team in schools and overworked teachers

[Conor Ryan]

**disclaimer** the following has absolutely nothing to do with 1403 or 3186. **/disclaimer**

What do you do when you have teachers/schools/school districts that aren't fully committed to supporting a very competitive FRC team? What I am very interested in learning about is how teams went from school-based to community-based.

Here is the problem, there are many teams out there that have several pieces of the pie (usually 2 of the 3) students, teachers, mentors. But frequently because of an uncooperative school or overworked teachers teams miss out on serious opportunities to go out and do more FIRST. How do you over come this?

I know of several teams in my area and I have spoken to several teachers and mentors, about their current team situations. The obvious answer to their problems right now is that they need to change how their team is arranged with their school.

• What kind of arrangements do you make?
• How do you handle legal responsibility?
• How did the transition happen?
• What kinds of bumps in the road did you encounter?
• Where does the team work now?
• Can you make this process scalable?

Thanks in advance