How many rookies do you have on your team?

[TheAnsweris42]

Well lets see, about 20.

Coincidentally, there happen to be a total of 20 on our team. Go figure

[kyleg242]

we at 191 have about 10 newbies this year 6-7 are working in the electronics area ( one of those is me )and the rest are split between mechs and drives

[hansTP2S]

We have about ten rookies.

[Daniel Morse]

Lets see, we have about 10-11 rookies this year. Most are freshmen, which is fantastic, because we have 4 seniors who are running the project this year, and only a few sophomores and one junior. The freshmen are a very sharp bunch, the ones who I have trained on Inventor are very intelligent and pleasant people. The programming rookies seem to be catching on very quickly to what they have to do. Our webmaster, who is a freshmen and rookie, learned how to do web design at home and designed and created a website from scratch to put in to our domain name placeholder. Click on the link below to view his work. Overall, I have a feeling that the seniors are leaving the team to very competent rookies.

[FHSFlirt]

We have about 13 people on the team, 9 of which are rookies.

[bombadier337]

We have a lot of rookies this year, and about 4-5 freshman. The freshmen on our team this year have completely blown us all away, and take on all of the most important jobs, and do it quite well. There's rookies working on just about every single aspect of the bot.

[LPaton716]

About half of our about 9 consistent members are rookies. Considering....we have built the robot just debugging , the freshmen are bound to stay (that's good they are the future of the team), everyone knows most of the basics now, scouting sheet is complete, and buttons are being made... I'd say the rookies (and veterans) did a terrific job.

On our team rookies, first year members despite actual grade, are expected to teach a skill as they learn it. And they certainly stepped up to the plate teaching me skills I didn't know (ex. basic pneumatics connections.)

They do all the jobs that any veteran would do as soon as they are able. woot!

[LightWaves1636]

I think more than half of our team are rookies, yeah that sounds about right. We have 7 seniors, umm idk how many juniors, but we have pleanty of sophmores, and no freshman(since at our school they're required to take Beginning Electronics, Advance Electronics, and Robotics before joining FIRST). At our school FIRST is a class/team/club.

[jonathan_powers]

we have 15 members total 3 2 are second years then me the one and only senior but we have alought of talent and its good to be on top except for all the blame and you should know better speaches

[kaye]

We are ALL rookies! Our Robotics team has won some local competitions (ISRAEL), and even placed 3rd in an international event last year, but we have never competed in anything like FIRST.

The cool thing is that we started out with maybe 20 kids and 3 mentors, and now we are up to 50 kids and maybe 10 mentors helping out. EVERYBODY wants to get involved, and our whole school is riveted on what is happening with the FIRST competition, which is SO so great.

I'm mentoring our web crew as well as our animation crew, and I can saftely say that we are VERY glad to be competing (only) at the rookie level! .

too many to count lol

[ShlepRock]

we have 19 rookies out of 19 students. we have a new team in every year. we are a senior only program.

[Mandi_|<o>|]

I think we have more than we need too=P
We have about 14 rookies, and 12 students that already joined FIRST.
At the season they use to learn, but, they quickly are able to be what we call slaves, thay clean up the room, buy food, get something here, there...lol
We work with this number because a lot of then give up during the year=(

bye

[paulcd2000]

We are an all rookie team, and according to one of our mentors, we're doing better than his old team. This leads me to wonder why people dislike rookies. Our entire team is rookie, and we're doing great.

[indimay15]

All of our team members are rookies except 3 seniors.

Last year the team was composed of nearly all seniors, and they were really worried about the team continuing. Ya know what they did? They invited a whole bunch of freshmen high schoolers to go with them to a competition in Chicago to see what everyone was working so hard for.

Lets just say this idea worked! Nearly all the rookies on the team this year either went on that trip or heard about it from those who did go and got interested.

I was one of those freshmen last year, and I was so hooked. I found myself in the very heart of FIRST: the teamwork, the excitement, the incredible engineering, and all that jazz! I couldn't wait until I could be a part of this program, and I'm sure the other rookies that went feel the same.