Multiple teams from one high school?

[shamuwong]

Our school, International Academy, draws kids from different districts. There are people in my school who are part of 302, 201, and 245. Of course, most of the robotics people are on 469, but some choose to go to their home high school. Team 469 consists of 3 schools in the Bloomfield area of Michigan, but there is not much interest in robotics outside of International Academy, as only 3 of our members are from other schools. We currently do not have the problem of too many members.

[Bcahn836]

Originally Posted by KathieK

There are several threads on CD concerning teams who are comprised of students from multiple high schools. I'm curious, with the increase of FLL teams whose members are reaching high school age, and the gaining popularity of the FIRST Robotics program at the high school level, are there any schools who have created multiple teams within their one school?

I anticipate this "problem" to crop up more and more in the future: if you've successfully established several FLL teams within your town, how do you deal with an influx of interested students as they become high school freshmen? After "grooming" them at the middle school level, it would seem a shame to turn them away. Yet how could a team support a lot of additional team members without having to split into mutliple teams?

We have students from three high schools and we all meet in the Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology center. In which some students from all three high schools attend many of us take Engineering Technology that is what our lead mentor teachs there and we all meet in his shop and classroom.

[Joe3]

Originally Posted by tb222

i'm honestly quite surprised MOE doesn't split. they're comprised of 16 DIFFERENT SHCOOLS!!!! now true, people wouldn't know what to think of MOE if they didn't take up a whole section of the stands @ Philly, plus the enourmous parade of blinding shirts if/when they win awards, but i seriously think that it'd be a wise choice of they split into even two or three teams. then, they'd not only be expanding the FLL community, but the FRC cummunity as well

Please don't take this message as my being offensive towards MOE. All preceeding thoughts were simply an observation and possible suggestion as sparked by this post...

Sorry if this is a somewhat re-post of what Carol said, but here it is.

Over the past few years, we have tried very hard to start to spin off some schools into their own teams. This past year we were finally successful in getting a few started, and started one at Avon Grove highschool (#1495), which had previously been the highschool with the most students on MOE. We were also able to start a team at Middletown Highscool, which had previously had students on MOE. These two were the first spinoffs, but we are always pressing for more. One problem we have run into is the funding facilities, and equipment issue found everywhere. However, it is my interpretation of the Miracle Workerz mission that we would like to continue to spin off teams untill there one school left, and that school will become MOE.

[Mel]

I am one of the founding members of team 1359 and wouldn't have continued with robotics if it wasn't for this team. We focus on getting as many people from as many "school" backgrounds as possible. There are a lot of really small areas in the vicinity of our town, that wouldn't be able to support a team by themselves, so we offer them membership. As a Boy Scout Venture Crew, members can be from just about anywhere! We also do Boy Scout Activities... we just did one rafting trip and are planning another!! Our team has statistics about membership, as far as how many kids from the different schools, but other than that, we do not really claim a school as "ours". East Linn Christian Academy has been very nice in letting us use some of their services, that is why they are listed. West Albany HS knows about our team, in fact, I have had countless discussions with the principal and he just thinks that the more involved, the merrier! He's been very supportive. Member relations between the various teams depends on the members themselves, there were a few on the West team I talked to regularly, but it really depends on the specific people.

I guess I just want to reiterate that even though we have students from various schools involved, we have a great time! We're all about learning and having fun, just like everyone else.

Referrring again to team 469...

There used to be another team at the International Academy, team 349. However, the demand for spots on the team was higher than the number of kids they could keep. So, some of the students who weren't on 349 formed our team, team 469. Unfortunately, team 349 ended up not continuing. For a short while, there were two teams at the highschool.

(I wasn't there at the time, so I don't really know how that worked out.)

[Lisa Perez]

I was looking through state team lists.. and noticed that Rochester High School was listed under two numbers, 201 (the Feds) and 1037 (SCREAM). Team 1037, however, is also an effort with another school in the area, Stoney Creek High. I'm not too sure if all of the Feds joined SCREAM for this year, I didn't see them compete.

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by Lisa Perez

I'm not too sure if all of the Feds joined SCREAM for this year, I didn't see them compete.

The Feds (201) competed at Nationals in the Archimedes division (they were next to 188 in the pits...).

[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally Posted by Lisa Perez

I was looking through state team lists.. and noticed that Rochester High School was listed under two numbers, 201 (the Feds) and 1037 (SCREAM). Team 1037, however, is also an effort with another school in the area, Stoney Creek High. I'm not too sure if all of the Feds joined SCREAM for this year, I didn't see them compete.

The FEDS are most definitely still around. I was a college mentor for 201 this past season, and we competed at Great Lakes and West Michigan Regionals, and in the Archimedes Division at the Championship.

To more thoroughly answer the question about 201 and 1037, there are RHS students on both teams, so the Rochester High School name is included in both teams. 201 was the original RHS team, started in 1998. One of the founders of that team went to the International Academy the following year (during which time she started and ran the above mentioned team 349). After 4 years there, she returned to Rochester High School, and decided to start another team in the district, 1037, at Stoney Creek High School for the 2003 season. Being an RHS faculty member, she included a few students from her classes. So, for the 2004 season, they officially acknowledged the RHS students in the team name.

So, you could say that Rochester High School has two teams, although one is a joint venture with another high school, and one is the established RHS team that's been around since '98. It's definitely an interesting situation.

[Lisa Perez]

Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin

The FEDS are most definitely still around. I was a college mentor for 201 this past season, and we competed at Great Lakes and West Michigan Regionals, and in the Archimedes Division at the Championship.

So, you could say that Rochester High School has two teams, although one is a joint venture with another high school, and one is the established RHS team that's been around since '98. It's definitely an interesting situation.

That's pretty cool!

(I didn't see you guys compete because we didn't go to those regionals, and we weren't in Archimedes. Sorry about the confusion )

[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally Posted by Lisa Perez

That's pretty cool!

(I didn't see you guys compete because we didn't go to those regionals, and we weren't in Archimedes. Sorry about the confusion )

That's fine... I'll forgive you