Non School sponsored Team

[melissa]

Originally Posted by KevinB

Just out of curiosity, how is recruiting done? How did you find out about this city-wide team?

How is absence from school handled?

We have presentations of our robot and team at different high schools, museums, and other activities with teenagers there. We go everywhere we can to try and make our team known. The students on my team come from 14 different highschools, both public and private, and from 3 different states, so we come from all over. Most of the time people find out through word of mouth, although MOE has been in the newspaper a few times. As for the absences, we each get a permission slip that states the days we will be missing school, and we need to get both our parents and a school official (principal, dean of students, etc) to sign it.

Being on a team with such diversity has its advantages and disadvantages, depending on how you look at it. We do have the travel and permission issue, and there are some students from arch rival schools who need to work together ;-), but I absolutly love it. We always have so many different views on problems, and so many different backgrounds. I am the only person from my entire school on the team, so it was amazing to meet around 35 completly new people who liked the same thing I did.

Hope that helps