How many rookies do you have on your team?

[agndoggieboi]

half of our team are rookies and mostly they just do stuff like help build stuff or take pics. which is good for the returnees to concentrate on some of the delicate stuff.

[Freak999]

We have 16 rookies out of 29 total. (13 veterans)

[Koko Ed]

We had 15 student newbies and 3 adult newbies. Now it's 11 student newbies and 2 adult newbies.
2 newbies are on my animation team.
1 newbie is are only promotions team member.
2 of our student and one of our adult newbies are on drives (and one is the backup human player)
1 of our student newbies is on Mechanisms
5 of our student and the other new adult mentor is on electrical ( AKA Sparkies) and one of the students is also the human player.
New blood is good for the team.

[sanddrag]

About 7 new members in a team of about 19 students. Total. Six of the 7 new members are girls. Two are freshmen. The new members are doing everything except website and machining.

[IraJason]

Well... Team 1712 is all rookies, as we are a rookie team. However, our main robot designer has built robots for battlebots and our programming guys have taken programming courses throughout most of high school. There are very few people on our team that didn't know what was going on before joining, as most have taken at least one or two engineering/programming/CADD courses that our school offers.

It's being able to apply all that knowledge to one large, finished product that's tricky...

[Zyik]

A little more then 2/3 of our team is rookies.

[chinckley]

We too are a two year school (Tech Center) in Michigan. We have only one returning student from last year. The rest of our team is new. They have everything as their roles. Our team is small also, just 12 or so students. They do the machining, electrical, cabling, programming, design, drawings, etc. They do it all. We have 1 CAD student, 4 machine tool students, 4 electronics/networking students, 3 programming students. We have 4 teachers, 3 returning graduate mentors and 1 engineer to guide and make sure no one gets hurt. It is a nice team. More returning students would have been nice but they all graduated but the one.

Carolyn

[Darkswordsmith]

We have about 15 out of 20 rookies this year. Most of them are just floating around and try to look busy. This one rookie really gets on my nerves being arrogant to everyone.

However, lucky this year we got some really good "rookies", they're pretty experienced this kind of stuff from their hobbies and stuff.

[Steve S.]

There are 5 of us that are still on the team from last year, all the rest graduated. the other 25-30 are rookies *sigh* Its a pain...........

[KuhnDog]

A little over half our team this year are rookies. We try to get them involved as much as possible and teach them as much as possible about engineering and how FIRST works. Almost all of them have stepped up to the callenge and are participating well, even taking leadership roles.

[d.courtney]

exactly 1/5... and since the majority of the people on the robotics team stay 5 years it is a perfect ratio to keep the team size the same... although we wouldn't mind expanding the number of people on the team, but we may find problems with finding what to give people to do

[yodameister]

We have 15 rookies and a rookie mentor and a rookie sponsor and a rookie everything...we are a rookie team :-)

[TniyTyne]

rookie, well i guess thats what i am. i've never been on a robotics team before but i have been in technology camp and we built robots and made websites. the robots were made of legos so thats not really complecated. we also had manuals to help with where the wires went and how to program it...so, yeah, i'm a rookie.

[Nuttyman54]

We have 11, (over half the team) and they do everything from building to math calculations. We're really proud of all of them!

[edit]

lemme rephrase that

Our team even though it has been a long time since it has been a rookie team acts like a rookie team...

We have a rookie advisor, our main mentor is not actually main because he has some important thing going on in his job this year, and haven't been showing up as often as last year.... no seniors this year beacuse all the seniors have left... we also have two new mentors, our work area has been cut down in half... sigh.. it is a real mess this year XD

and our team is mostly made up of rookies, except for me and a couple few. I'm still a newbie because this is my second year.. T_T help me!!!!