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Unread 19-12-2016, 11:42
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Re: Minimum age for FRC?

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That is intresting. I know that if you are too young (11 is the age i heard) they will not let you sign up in STIMS.
Whenever i was that age i didn't have any issues signing up on stims.
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We accept students as early as 6th grade, but for grades 6 and 7 we usually require significant parent involvement. Grade 8 gets a bit more responsibility, and drive team is strictly high school (I thought that was a rule but I'm not positive).
The drive team being strictly high school is not a rule as far as i am aware. Because i started on the drive team for my team in my 7th grade year.
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Re: Minimum age for FRC?

We have taken on 8th graders provided that they were 14 by Kickoff
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This is the reply to an email I sent a while ago

I need to find the rule somewhere about students participating that are "pre-college." I've had a couple of students in the past participate at age 19 before but still in high school.
It is not uncommon for our school to get immigrants from other countries, who are held back a year or 2 when they attend school here in the U.S.
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Re: Minimum age for FRC?

For teams considering taking students less that 15 or before 9th grade I recommend you have policies, procedures and infrastructure in place to shield/protect/shepherd the younger students. The difference in maturity level from 13 to 18 is sometimes huuuge. Throwing 9th and 12th graders together is already difficult and adding middle schoolers to the mix is daunting.

We've had some trouble with such things, regretted it later, and decided no middle schooler can join unless his or her parents will come with them to every meeting.

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Re: Minimum age for FRC?

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I need to find the rule somewhere about students participating that are "pre-college." I've had a couple of students in the past participate at age 19 before but still in high school.
It is not uncommon for our school to get immigrants from other countries, who are held back a year or 2 when they attend school here in the U.S.
In the 2016 game manual, it's in section 3.1.1, T19, and the glossary. Note that "pre-college" is only used to define the drivers and human player and going to the question box.

The 2016 Admin manual only uses this term in section 6.1, in dealings with the Judge Advisor regarding awards questions.

Except for these few cases, there really doesn't seem to be anything mandatory about ages in the rules.
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For teams considering taking students less that 15 or before 9th grade I recommend you have policies, procedures and infrastructure in place to shield/protect/shepherd the younger students. The difference in maturity level from 13 to 18 is sometimes huuuge. Throwing 9th and 12th graders together is already difficult and adding middle schoolers to the mix is daunting.

We've had some trouble with such things, regretted it later, and decided no middle schooler can join unless his or her parents will come with them to every meeting.
In our case it might help that we meet at the local library, completely outside school hours. That means that there's fewer curious onlookers who "just happened to walk by" - if you're there, then you wanted to be there and you probably convinced mom or dad to drive you. After a few meetings, we find that the students that keep coming back are the ones who really want to be involved and are willing and ready to learn. If you give them the opportunity to step up, and give them the benefit of the doubt, I bet at least some of them will surprise you.

But, yes, absolutely put policies in place to protect students, including rules on when, where, and how they are allowed to work with tools, equipment, etc.
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