WHAT TEAM MEMBERS GO TO NATIONALS

[Macdaddy549]

WHEN YOU HAVE A LARGE FIRST TEAM AND EVERYONE WANTS TO GO TO NATIONALS AND YOU HAVE LIMITED FUNDS HOW DO YOU CHOSE WHO GOES? WE HAVE THIS DILEMMA. IT WOULD BE GREAT TO TAKE EVERYONE BUT THE FUNDS ARE NOT THERE.

[Dorienne]

Well, you could always try doing fundraising in the school, doing little things. Candy sales are great for profit.
If not, and there's no other way to get funding, you can take the core group first. And if any other people who are maybe new and want to go and have earned their way to going, I'd recommend taking them also. It all depends on the people and if they work for it.

[tkwetzel]

On our team, for all competitions we go to, the team pays for part of the trip and requires students to pay a certain amount for the trip. It makes the trip affordable for the students, and limits the amount that the team has to spend on taking students.

[Koko Ed]

We use a star chart with required tasks that our students have to accomplish in order to qualify to go. Right now we have 34 kids and can only take 30 so we're going to have 4 disappionted kids (we also can only take 15 adults but we don't use a star chart for them).

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

We use a star chart with required tasks that our students have to accomplish in order to qualify to go. Right now we have 34 kids and can only take 30 so we're going to have 4 disappionted kids (we also can only take 15 adults but we don't use a star chart for them).

I feel badly for those 4 kids, if they are qualified. Maybe I misunderstood.
You have an amazing adult:kid ratio.

[Logan Byers]

We have several requirements on 461;
1. $300 dollars of fundraising (most of the time, we just have parents pay for what we don't raise)
2. I think it is 80% attendence (which included PR events)
3. We have a clock-in/clock-out system that shows how many hours we have worked. This counts for advisors and high school students. more hours = dedication and dedication = traveling to nationals (and if we are lucky we get to go with the Tech crew) take a look at our times: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~cagnew/at...ce/ranking.php

[KTorak]

Originally Posted by 461gopher

3. We have a clock-in/clock-out system that shows how many hours we have worked. This counts for advisors and high school students. more hours = dedication and dedication = traveling to nationals (and if we are lucky we get to go with the Tech crew) take a look at our times: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~cagnew/at...ce/ranking.php

How exactly does that work? Our team sure could use something similar to that for who attends what meetings and for how long, people like to come to a meeting, sign their name on the paper, stay for 5 minutes, then leave.

[fire chaser 134]

we havent had a problem where we couldnt aford to bring everyone who wanted to go but just in case we have a sign in book that you put down the time you started working, what you worked on and then when you left. we made this up just in case we could only send a few team members we would check the log and see who had the most time working. as i said we never had to do that but i guess it would be a fair way to determine who can go and who can't.

[Babyhueyhnx]

We have a clock-in/clock-out system that shows how many hours we have worked too. it does not really work because no one really keeps track of the people. as was said before ppl clock in and leave and comeback later to clock out. But this year our team shrunk so its a little bit easier to know who was working and who was not. Also just cause they have the hours on the sheet does not mean they are actually doing anything. I find that it is not the time that counts as much as what you do during that time.

Basically we see how much the person has contributed. then we put together a tier system. and those who do the most pay the least. but every one does pay some green out of pocket. Usually the mentors pay their full way so that the students can go for less. We try to subsidize as much of the cost as possible while having some money in the bank left for next years regional entry fee.

[Sonya47]

Everyone on our team gets to go. Unless there grades aren't at the requirement, other reasons.

[Andrew Y.]

we have a system of dealing with things like this

for funds, we sell tattoos, sell pizza at the Georgia Dome, car washes, and various other things to raise money. Every person who worked at those events are awarded "credits". Some people end up having enough credits to attend 2 regionals and championships at no cost.

When it is choosing time. Meeting attendance, amount of work effort, amount funded, and general behavior is all factored in and the selection begins.

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by Macdaddy549

WHEN YOU HAVE A LARGE FIRST TEAM AND EVERYONE WANTS TO GO TO NATIONALS AND YOU HAVE LIMITED FUNDS HOW DO YOU CHOSE WHO GOES? WE HAVE THIS DILEMMA. IT WOULD BE GREAT TO TAKE EVERYONE BUT THE FUNDS ARE NOT THERE.

Can you make it affordable to have everyone pay?, or can your team raise some money to offset some of the cost in the approximate 5 months? You could at last resort just start limiting people via performance/attendance.

p.s. Please turn off the caps lock when posting.

[Yov]

I would start out with team members you need, as in drivers, one or two people who are very good at repairs of all the robot parts, and any other essentials.
Next I would probably give favor to seniors who haven't been to the nationals, and if I had extra tickets either raffle them between the remainding people or distribute them by work effort.

[NoodleKnight]

During 2004 we couldn't afford to pay for everyone's plane ticket/hotel/etc.... for nationals. Basically what we did was ask the student to pay the necessary funds to travel and stay at Atlanta. For those who really wanted to go to nationals and couldn't pay the cost to travel, we used the team's funds.

[DCA Fan]

1. Caps Lock...off.
2. We usually send the students that participate the most, through their attendance and actions. Extra points for spirited members as well.