Eligibility to be considered a team member

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by Kimmeh

I think you're already on a team. =P You'd like to be a STUDENT on a FIRST team.

This.
There are no prerequisites for anyone to be on a team. Drive team, yes. But team member? All vertebrates welcome.
As far as team role - well, it seems most are set up as Students or Mentors. If you're not a Student, you're a Mentor. Still a valuable and valued member of the team. But at an event, you can't touch the sticks. Other than that, it's all semantics.