How many team members?

[pntbll1313]

I find these polls interesting however I think they may be skewed quite a bit. I feel like in general more well established (most likely larger as well) teams will be surfing CD in mid-August. I know that in general teams that use CD may be a little more well established but I'd take a guess that if you posted this same poll in January you may get a lot more of the 10 person teams responding.

Another thought about this data is say 10% of team members regularly surf CD (that's a huge overestimate in August). That means that for a 10 person team maybe you'll get 1 vote. MORT may vote 10 times. This further skews the data as larger teams will be that much more represented besides my earlier point that they are more likely to be here in the first place...

Again I love polls like this but you probably get more useful info from the comments than the poll itself. Just a though

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by pntbll1313

I find these polls interesting however I think they may be skewed quite a bit. I feel like in general more well established (most likely larger as well) teams will be surfing CD in mid-August. I know that in general teams that use CD may be a little more well established but I'd take a guess that if you posted this same poll in January you may get a lot more of the 10 person teams responding.

Another thought about this data is say 10% of team members regularly surf CD (that's a huge overestimate in August). That means that for a 10 person team maybe you'll get 1 vote. MORT may vote 10 times. This further skews the data as larger teams will be that much more represented besides my earlier point that they are more likely to be here in the first place...

Again I love polls like this but you probably get more useful info from the comments than the poll itself. Just a though

I can see your point, but it is also interesting to see strong teams like 1323 and 973 have fewer than 20 members.

[Jay O'Donnell]

1058 had 10 members (kids who actually showed up on a consistent basis) and only one of us graduated this year. Due to new programs we run in the fall, we're hoping to retain at least 5 freshman this upcoming year.

[Ankit S.]

Our team officially has 40 members. However, only about 25-30 of those have shown up for more than a couple meetings. Out of those, only about 15 contributed to the team.

Our average meeting attendance is around 10 members, although we have had weeks in build season where the average was 3-4 and other weeks where the average was 15.

For those teams that have a lot of members showing up to meetings (15-20+), how do you keep all of them occupied?
We have troubles, especially at this stage in the offseason, when we generally have a handful of idle hands. With many of our offseason projects and improvements, we only have enough tools for one person to be machining and 2 people to be assembling per project.
We also can't just keep adding projects, as it may end up not being completed due to time, space, or money reasons.

[Domenic Rodriguez]

Team 316 has usually averaged about 8-10 students, although the past few years have been higher. Right now we have 13 students, 6 of whom are seniors.