How is your team formed?

[Chubtoad]

Originally posted by Doanie8
However...while our teacher is a really funny English guy (he even set up a monarchy in our robotics team ) he mostly delegates power

HHAHA Our founder/head teacher guy is English too!!! What is it with the English!! Does he like Guiness? Does he drink tea all day long?!?!

Our team is about 30 people I think, I don't even know, its been growing slowly. I'd guess our school has about 1200 kids. We have open admission. Some people work on the robot, some people don't, some people do the Chairman's award, some don't. We have been trying to get more people to join, but the kids at our school don't think it is exactly "cool" to be on the robotics team. In the past year, and this year its been a lot easier to get smart dedicated people to join, in the past month I think I've convinced about 5 hard working, intelligent people to join the team after nationals.

The main problem was the people who founded the team were considered the "outcasts" the smart, technically inclined, and then the people who joined and spread the word about the program were the techinically inclined, so everyone thinks you have to be techinically inclined and they are scared to join, but slowly and surely, I am making a differnce

This is my third year on the team and the team's 4th year and I've risen to be recognized as the "team leader" and it upsets me to see all of these huge teams from small to large schools, and I'm from a large school and it is so hard to get dedicated people