How many students does it take to maintain a team?

[FizMan]

My team's been around for three years now. The first year I'd say we had 30 odd students participating. And we were pretty gung ho for that first year, putting a lot into it.

But next year the team got smaller and the apathy got worse.

And this year the team got smaller and the apathy got worse.


It's getting really hard for me (student alumni/mentor), the other one teacher, and the two major parent mentors to keep the team running. Seems like apathy is winning against the FIRST bug in my school; and it really sucks. The most depressing thing is the fact that we can't seem to get other teachers onboard... at anyrate, the 15-20 students we have now isn't enough... especially when only about 3-4 of us actually put forth a real effort into this team... Unless something major happens in my school to kill the apathy war, there probably won't be enough adult support, let alone students to have a Team 783 next year. ;_;