Varsity Letters for Michigan Teams

[Ed Law]

Originally Posted by LordSnow97

I am with team 3234, and we are currently working with our school's principal to get a varsity letter set up for our students. However, in creating the criteria, my principal is uncomfortable with how to set it up and wants some examples of other Michigan schools that give a letter to their robotics students.
Is there anyone out there on a MI team that gives out varsity letters? And if so, how does you school have it set up for the criteria of who qualifies to receive the letter? Please post or send me a message so I can get some of the students on my team to, if not this year, start getting varsity letters next year for their hard work in a sport of the mind.

Take a look at what Bedford Express had compiled.
http://www.bedfordexpress.org/varsity.html

[Jon Stratis]

My team isn't from Michigan, but we've been lettering students for the past 9 years. We created a set of requirements designed to help the team - attendance, leadership, outreach are the big ones. Not everyone letters, which is fine, but enough do, and we've seen measurable Iimprovements in the team each time we tweak the requirements. This year, I think 15/23 students completed the lettering requirements. Let me know if you want our specific requirements from this past year, I'm not sure how your school would view a set of requirements from outside the state.

[Dragonking]

At our school, the criteria if you are on the robotics team is either two years on the team or 200 build season hours.

To be completely honest, I wish it was harder to get just to motivate students more. Varsity letters really aren't as big of a deal if it isn't hard to get them in my opinion.