New Team to be (Possibly) Started at Cal Poly Pomona

[Bill Gold]

Originally Posted by Angela H.

I'll take all of this into consideration. I also know of teams who survive with only three or four total adults working with the students. I'm in the process of writing a letter to send to the math and science team leaders in the next week or so. I know it's rather early, but it can't hurt. In terms of engineers, I'm going to talk to people from my work who have expressed interest in the past.

- Angela

I wasn't really concerned with the number of mentors. I know you can run a team on one or two adults, I've been on teams like that. What I was concerned about was the funding situation of the area. But on that note, wouldn't it be a better learning experience for the kids on a hypothetical team with one or two mentors to merge with a team with a handful of mentors? It's also more cost effective to introduce new students to an established team, and then eventually spin off the new school as a new team later on. Surviving is much different than being comfortably self sufficient... and surviving is not a fun place to be. Please, take it from me... I was leading a "surviving" team for 3 seasons, and it's not as much fun as you'd think. Have fun in SoCal whatever you decide to do, though.