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Originally Posted by safiq10

I cna't say for how the FRC team picks and chooses. But on the BEST robotics we need a lot of people so we generally pick everyone up. But we still have a tryout day. But we recently ran into a problem a younger student whoose older brother made it onto the team wants to join. But from a past history we know that the younger student has a lot of emotional breakdowns if he cant gets what he wants and he dosent take directions very well. So we are trying to figure to tell him that he cant be on the team unless he changes these things. I don't know are we wrong for trying to kick him off? Should we keep him on? I dont want to kick him off but with ony 6 weeks I cant have him blowing up. Any suggestions

Safiq: I would sit the student down with his brother and explain to him that in such a short build time breakdowns hurt everyone on the team. I would then partner him up with a team leader on a smaller task such as the t-shirt design or booth design. If he continues his disruptive behavior then it is more than appropriate to ask him to leave.(We had to do this once to a student because he was starting to become dangerous.)

Yarden: I would start out the first introduction/presentation meeting praising the students on working to the point of having a full team. I would then implement a extremely strict attendance policy and tell the students that unless you follow it(excluding becoming sick/death in the family) then the mentors of the team have the right to remove you from the team. You can do the same thing with a behavioral policy and after a few months, even if you had more students than you thought you could deal with, you should have a solid team that is there not just for a resume bump but for being a great frc team member.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Yarden,
We are a class within the school district (7 schools but students come primarily from three schools and home schooled students) and all students must apply through their counselor. We accept 60 students each year. They know that many of them will not work on the robot but we have other work that needs to be done like building a field, animation, video and strategy and data collecting.