# of team members

[Meredith Rice]

We have a total of 18 members and remarkably we had 16 come on two or more of the days of the Philly regional which is a record breaker for us. Only about 6 students are active in building/programing, which works pretty well for us, however 5 of those students are seniors which poses a problem for when we graduate.

For our next regional we are going down on Wed. with only 3 students and 2 mentors!!! Others are coming down on either Thurs or Fri for a grand total of 3 mentors and 5 students! Have any other teams gone to a regional with this few number of people? Have you been able to handle it and come out successfully? We are used to having a very small team and handled Houston with only 7 students, however this will be the smallest ever at a competition. Its funny this is a year of firsts for us, greatest number at a competition as well as the least.

[Lisa Rodriguez]

We currently have 34 memebers with about 10-15 that carry the team.
The other kids do some things, but its 10-15 that carry the team and do most of the work, volenteer, etc.

[fred]

I think we have about 20-30 team members. There are usually only 5-10 in the pits during competition, but lots of other people are doing important things like scouting, filming, or doing chairmans and stuff. We also have a good crew of animators and people like that.

[nparikh]

We (team 25) have about 25-30 members, each of which are active with our team and during competitions, whether it be through being in the stands and cheering, scouting, programming, working in the pits, driving the robot, or countless other things.

[Joshua May]

We currently have 17 members, 16 of which are high school students and 1 eight grader. I would say about 10 are constat workers. Last year, we had seven studnets, 3-4 of which really did most of the work.

[DarkJedi613]

we have about 25 members, but around 10 really "hard core" members

[FadyS.]

Originally Posted by DarkJedi613

we have about 25 members, but around 10 really "hard core" members

We started off with over 80 who signed up for the team. Once the membership fee of $20 came in, our team went down to 60 members. By the time January 10 came along, our team was down to 13 (those who went to the Ontario Science Centre to see the satellite feed for the kick-off). By the time we started building, our team was down to 6 to 8 people. Last week (during our school's march/winter break) we had a meeting regarding strategy and that was down to 2 (myself and our mentor).

[pi_guy578]

We have about 20.

Getting 20 members is one thing...
Getting them to do somthing contructive is another...

There are too many members that just seem to fool around or are on the team because it is cool. Do any other teams out there have problems like that?

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by pi_guy578

We have about 20.

Getting 20 members is one thing...
Getting them to do somthing contructive is another...

There are too many members that just seem to fool around or are on the team because it is cool. Do any other teams out there have problems like that?

We have had a few problems getting people to do something constructive. It seems that a lot of the time half the members were taking gameboy breaks while the other half of the team worked.

[DarkJedi613]

Originally Posted by HHSJosh

We have had a few problems getting people to do something constructive. It seems that a lot of the time half the members were taking gameboy breaks while the other half of the team worked.

We have that problem too...apparantly they found a chinese food place that delievers

Originally Posted by FadyS.

We started off with over 80 who signed up for the team. Once the membership fee of $20 came in, our team went down to 60 members. By the time January 10 came along, our team was down to 13 (those who went to the Ontario Science Centre to see the satellite feed for the kick-off). By the time we started building, our team was down to 6 to 8 people. Last week (during our school's march/winter break) we had a meeting regarding strategy and that was down to 2 (myself and our mentor).

that happened to us, though not as drastically...we started with like 40-50 then it slowly trickled down each meeting

winter break was like 3 or 4 students each day plus the 3 engineers, some parents and a teacher