How is your team formed?

[Kristina]

OMG, that's so cool you have an English guy too! He doens't drink that much tea but he always calls us funny Americans...like how we pronounce the word butter and water. Anyway, we do have a large British influence in our class. I'm Queen Kristina, there is King Jeff, Prince Eric, and Prince Chris. Then we have our loyal subjects. He also wanted to name our team the Harts. We would be the Hart High School Hart's...gee I wonder how that name was shot down. Apparently the Hart is some kind of ferocious animal in England or something.

Oh yeah...Matt...as for grades, why don't you give grades according to how much people work? While we also learned the technical stuff first semester, since our second semester was only about building, we gave grades soley on participation. There's been all these kids who have gotten straight A's and they're lazy so it was a wakup call when we gave them a B-.
Here's a tougher situation though on grading, any insights would be greatly appreciated:
There's this kid in our robotics class who got into Stanford and MIT and we were all kinda surprised. Well he's in the robotics class and hardly ever shows up and does nothing. We gave him the simple task of printing out dinner tickets but they came in very late and we had to reschedule our dinner. If we give him lower than a C, he'll get disinvited from his colleges. Talk about pressure on the other team leaders on me...we're thinking of just giving him a C- so he can go to his college even though he deserves less (maybe there he'll get kicked out or shape-up). To kind of link this back to the thread topic, it was really really competitive to get into this class (had to cut 130 people) and it would be kinda nice to show that you have to earn your spot and do stuff to keep it. What do you think?