How to Get New Members to Stay?

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[quote=Chief Hedgehog;1589973
4607 has been graduating 10-13 members each year for our short four year existence - and every year we bring in a load of 10th and 11th grade students that have an immediate impact. Next year we will be returning 16 seniors - and all but two have at least 2 years on the team. However, we noticed that the 9th grade students were not ready to take on the tasks and the time constraints required by our FRC season - and a lot of this is due to their maturity and lack of a drivers license.

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Is it just me, or does anyone else think that freshmen are getting less and less mature each year? I'm a sophmore right now, the freshman class last year (the one i was in) was mature and dedicated to the work. The freshman before us were even more mature. But this years freshman are a bunch of goofballs who like to pretend to drill each others brains out and take nothing seriously, and I've been told that next year is even worse .