GPA Requirements and Penalties

[Tyler_Kaplan]

For our team you have to maintain a minimum GPA of 2.0 to be considered a member. This is the standard for sports at our school as well. However, if you want to be on the board of directors (our leadership structure) You have to have at least a 3.0. And on top of that, if you want to go to competition and travel with the team, you have to be there for 61% of team meeting time. This is a weighted scale however: 35% Fundraising 30% Build Season 20% Pre/Post Build Season Work Meetings, and 15% Team Bonding.

[cbale2000]

Our team has a policy of requiring a C or better in all classes in order to be on the travel team. Parents may still bring them to events (on Saturday typically) to watch with us in the stands but they do not participate as part of the team.

We also make sure to let students know they are welcome to bring any schoolwork they may be struggling with to meetings to get help.

[MysterE]

Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. Each year, we have tweaked our standards so I wanted to see what everyone else had in place.

Here is our standard as it stands now:

It shall be the policy of Panthrobotics that Team Members must maintain a GPA of 2.5 with no more than one failing grade in order to be an active participant within the team. This GPA will be verified two weeks after each six weeks progress report grade. The following procedures will be enacted for students who fall below this standard.
• Students who have a 2.0 – 2.45 Unweighted GPA with only one failing grade will be allowed to remain active in after-school activities if and only if the student is willing to attend Monday Tutoring sessions in the Library and return bi-weekly grading reports from each teacher until grades have been brought up to the standard required. Students who cannot attend tutoring will be suspended from all activities until grades have made the required improvement as demonstrated by the grading report.
• Students who have lower than a 2.0 or more than 1 failing grade will be suspended from all robotics activities until they submit a grading report that places them above a 2.0 at which point they are eligible for tutoring until their grade reaches a 2.5. Students below a 2.0 may attend Monday tutoring sessions.