!!!HELP!!! My team is not motivated

[anonymous_robot]

I would like to open saying that i have created this account to protect my own, and my teams identity from both my team and others. I will say that i am a third year student on a relatively old team for a little context.

In the last few month I feel like my team has gone down hill. I am saddened to say that I feel ashamed of how we/they have been behaving over all. Our team and our school has a policy that you can not exclude member from a club/team making it so anyone can join. I am a strong supporter of this policy however I feel that it has lead to an influx of member that see robotics as a casual activity and not so thing that requires dedication. This has lead to a proliferation of this attitude through out the leadership on our team. While we are a team for 40-50 students the amount of students that do measurable work that can not be done by others and show up to most meeting ended up being just about 20 of us. Of that twenty an even smaller percentage leads by example. All the other student socialize and play games. At competition these last few year my team has been a little loud, in the good way, we were spirited, always asking who needed help. This year a majority of the freshmen and sophomores would congrats in front of our pit blocking traffic, in addition they would be telling inappropriate jokes. A portion of the senior are also very apathetic to every thing. I am truly at a loss for what to do. I would love others input so that I can help turn my team around.