FIRST and grades

[SarahBeth]

Originally Posted by Carolyn_Grace

This is a great question.
I'd like to offer a couple followup questions:

How do teams ensure that students grades stay up and/or improve?

What policies teams have for student grades?

What are suggestions to help students who have lower grades, but clearly *need* this FIRST experience in their lives?

1. Offer a study hall before meetings for homework to be done if mentors or teachers are able to be there. We don't meet until 6pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays so students are able to go home and do homework or stay at school.

2. We follow our school's policy for travel (see above) - C or better in academic subjects, B or better in technical trade.

3. See number 1 - study hall or make an expectation that students seek extra help before going to robotics. Or have team members offer to tutor those who are struggling.

Also all students must get permission from all their teachers to miss days in school.

We do this too.