How many team members?

[alexander.h]

This poll is aimed at finding out how many team members your team has in order to see how my team compares with other teams.

[ehochstein]

Originally Posted by alexander.h

This poll is aimed at finding out how many team members your team has in order to see how my team compares with other teams.

Voted. 25-30, how many team members does your team have?

[Abhishek R]

Well, at the beginning of the year we technically have about 60-70, but by the end of build season we have about 20-25 ish after a few lose interest, something we're trying to improve for the coming year.

[AllenGregoryIV]

We try to carry around 30 during FRC season. It's normally a bit bigger during the fall.

[Seth Mallory]

We start and end with 54 students each year. The drop rate is 1 every 3 years or so and that spot is filled right away.

[AdamHeard]

10 this season, and that's about average for us.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by Seth Mallory

We start and end with 54 students each year. The drop rate is 1 every 3 years or so and that spot is filled right away.

I'm assuming that's in addition to the normal freshman/senior turnaround?

Also, my team had 83 students last year (largest in our state).

[jwallace15]

I'm pretty sure our new count is between 50 and 55 (including mentors and students), but we might lose a couple students and gain a couple mentors throughout the season.

[Seth Mallory]

Originally Posted by sentientfungus

I'm assuming that's in addition to the normal freshman/senior turnaround?

Each year we have between 20-30 returning students and the rest are rookies. We have no Freshmen and very few Sophomores. This is what works best for us.

Good luck with you 84. I am impressed with your efforts.

[MechEng83]

We only had 5 graduating seniors out of 37 kids last year. This year, so far, we've had about 40 new kids show up! We tend to keep about half of the newcomers, so we'll likely be in the 50-55 range this year.

[ehfeinberg]

What do you call a member? We have over 120 students attend our first meeting and well over 80 make it to the start of build season. However, we only have 40 or so kids who are truly dedicated members.

[Boe]

Last season we had 43 kids on our roster. Of them 5 graduated this year. We expect around 8-12 new members this year so that puts us at about 45. Of that number around 10-15 are very dedicated and show up at the shop most days.

[bardd]

We had 34 registered students on the team as per 2013 build season, and 10 seniors (including me ) graduated this year. I understand that around 25 about-to-be-sophomores are coming to the team's new member training workshops (they're happening this week), usually about 40% of them stick around, so I'm guessing the number won't be that different next year.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by Seth Mallory

Each year we have between 20-30 returning students and the rest are rookies. We have no Freshmen and very few Sophomores. This is what works best for us.

Ah, that makes a bit more sense. Thanks for the background!

I find these sorts of threads/polls interesting, and in this particular case I think it's of curiosity that there's a large gap between 50-55 and 70+, especially since the rest of the graph seems reasonably close to normally distributed.

[OWilliamson]

This year we had 10 people on the team. Three of them graduated, but as of right now there are about 5 more people interested in joining. I'm guessing that we will only have about 15 people on the team come January.